latex margin issues --- still

[Henk Koster]

On Wed, 03 May 2006 09:10:42 -0500, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:

> List,
> 
> A while back, I wrote about issues I've been having with LaTeX
> margins. Essentially, they end up being noticeably smaller on the
> right hand side (and noticeably larger on the left hand side) than
> they are supposed to be.
> 
> This is becoming a huge annoyance as this has been occurring for
> months. (Is there some reason this bug still hasn't been fixed?) Even
> with the upgrade to Dapper, I still get the same issues.
> 
> I have tried various attempts at fixing the problem, from using
> fullpage, to using geometry or anysize... Nothing seems to fix the
> problem.
> 
> Does anyone know of another solution that actually works?
> 
> If all else fails, I'm just going to have to get out a ruler and
> manually play around with this until it works for Friday when I have
> to turn in my thesis.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike

You really ought to show us the preamble part of your thesis -- the
problem may be the use of incompatible packages, or packages loaded
in the wrong order. Do you also have asymmetric margins when you prepare a
test document *just* in article.sty, say?