[texhax] Regarding margin for binding in thesis

[Arvind]

Hello,

I am a little confused about the binding space settings, for a thesis
to be printed two-sided. I tried the package geometry. Here are the
relevant lines:

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[twoside,bindingoffset=1in]{geometry}

But this does not seem to be working. I want different binding margins
for odd and even numbered pages. But that does not seem to be the
case. Is the command above wrong?

Can someone share their thesis margin settings for two sided printing
(\oddsidemargin, \evensidemargin etc)? Our institute does not have a
specification, so it is up to me. Nobody at my department uses latex,
so no templates either.

thanks,
arvind