latex margins

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Actually, I use letterpaper since I'm in the US. I found that
a4paper (on the screen, anyway) doesn't seem to be as extreme
looking, but either one I still have uneven margins except when I
use the anysize package like I mentioned a little while ago.

Mike

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:32:52PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> > I've had a problem with LaTeX margins for quite some time now.
> > Basically, when using the fullpage package, or even manually
> > specifying the margins to use, I get weird issues with one side
> > having a noticeably larger margin than the other (see the attached
> > PDF).
> > 
> > To date, no one has been able to figure out what the problem is
> > exactly. This is a real annoyance, especially when I need to turn in
> > papers (I don't really want to have it looking that ugly).
> 
> Have you specified a4paper in the \documentclass line at the top? To get
> sensible margins, I typically put:
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fullpage}
> 
> Also note that a 1 inch margin is assumed by the dvi processor, so any
> margins you specify in LaTeX is relative to this 1 inch margin.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 
> P.S., Feel free to post me a sample (non confidential, of course)
> document and I'll play with it. I use breezy.
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