Changing margin for only one (title) page

[bjacquem]

Hello,

I am writing a PhD thesis and I choose the "default" report style,
that is very convenient for me. Except for one thing... The title
page, that has to follow the doctoral school (Word!) guidelines...

These guidelines are not too much difficult to recreate, but the
margin... I can't find a solution to reduce margin *only for the title
page* (the margin within the thesis are perfect with the default).

I use the titlepage environment to recreate the Word page style, and I
tried to change it, using "\setlength" commands on \textwidth and
\textheight (as I found on www and in several LaTeX books) :

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{mytitlepage}{
\begin{titlepage}
\def\oldtw{\textwidth}
\def\oldth{\textheight}
\setlength{\textwidth}{155mm}
\setlength{\textheight}{247mm}
}{
\setlength{\textwidth}{\oldtw}
\setlength{\textheight}{\oldth}
\end{titlepage}
}

But when I try to use this new environment istead of titlepage,
nothing changes (I know I have to adapt left margin and head height
too, not yet done).
Am I on the right way to change the margins (and the width and height
of the textual part of the page) ? Or am I totally wrong ?
For now, I can't see any solution to my problem.

Thanks in advance for your answers !

be

[Werner Grundlingh]

This would ideally be how one should go about changing the layout of
any specific page within a document. However, it is not as easy, as
you most likely discovered. Although I have not had the need in any
application of mine, I would suggest using the changepage package,
available online via CTAN from
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=changepage

Werner

[bjacquem]

On Mar 18, 11:59 pm, Werner Grundlingh <wgrundli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This would ideally be how one should go about changing the layout of
> any specific page within a document. However, it is not as easy, as
> you most likely discovered. Although I have not had the need in any
> application of mine, I would suggest using the changepage package,
> available online via CTAN from
> http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=changepage
>
> Werner

This is great ! Thank you very much !