[XeTeX] book size options --- help

[Alan Munn]

At 4:33 PM -0500 5/26/09, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:
>Dear all,
>This a problem I've had ever since I began working in LaTeX, and I
>still have it in XeTeX. Perhaps someone can help me with it.
>I have been requested to typeset in XeLaTeX a math book of this size:
>170mm x 240mm. I must have these margins: top: 25mm, bottom: 30mm;
>outside: 25mm; inside: 25mm.
>But I don't know exactly how to change this parameters.
>Should I use the geometry package? Or the memoir class?
>Any recommendations?

Memoir indeed has extensive page layout parameters, and they are well 
documented.

Or if you're happy with the book class, then you can use geometry:

\usepackage[paperwidth={170mm},paperheight={240mm}, tmargin={25mm}, 
bmargin={30mm}, inner={25mm}, outer={25mm}, twoside]{geometry}

Should give you what you want. (You can also use geometry with memoir AFAIK.)

Alan


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