[XeTeX] book size options --- help

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

Use the crop package. First you invoke geometry, then crop. Very easy. (It
should be on your system, I think.) Use truecm for your measurements (this
was discussed some time ago on this list). The documentation is at
http://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/crop/

Rembrandt


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 19:50, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all.
> BTW, is it easy to add cropmarks to the PDF?
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alan Munn                                               amunn at msu.edu
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> >
>



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