The geometry directive provides an easy and flexible interface to customize page layout. It uses the LaTeX geometry package and it's description here is a (modified) part of the geometry package documentation.
The geometry directive implements auto-centering and auto-balancing mechanisms so that the users have only to give the least description for the page layout. In this case, what you have to do is just
{geometry:a4paper}
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In addition to this centering problem, setting margins from each edge of the paper is also troublesome. However, with geometry package, you can do
{geometry:margin=1.5in}
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if you want to set each margin 1.5in from each edge of the paper.
Lengths can be written in
Centimeters (cm)
Millimeters (mm)
Inches (in)
Points (pt)
To realize a straightforward setting for page layout, the following page structure is introduced: A paper contains a total body (printable area) and margins. The total body consists of a body (text area), a header, a footer and a marginal note which is optional. There are four margins: left-, right-, top- and bottom-margin.
paper: total-body (printable area) and margins total-body: head, body(text area), foot and marginal notes margins: left-, right-, top- and bottom-margin |
Each margin is measured from the corresponding edge of a paper. For example, left-margin means a horizontal distance between the left edge of the paper and that of the total body. The dimensions for paper, totalbody and margins have the following relations.
paperwidth = left + width + right paperheight = top + height + bottom |
Table 5-1. Options for geometry directive
| landscape | switches the paper orientation to landscape mode |
| portrait | switches the paper orientation to portrait mode |
| twoside | switches on two-sided printing. In this mode, specified left and right margins are switched over in each odd-numbered page. |
| reversemp | makes the marginal notes appear in the left margin |
| nohead | eliminates spaces for the head of page |
| nofoot | eliminates spaces for the foot of page |
| noheadfoot | eliminates spaces for the head and foot of page |
| a4paper, a5paper,letterpaper, legalpaper | specifies paper name. They must be used with no values. |
| paperwidth | width of the paper. paperwidth=<paperwidth> |
| paperheight | height of the paper. paperheight=<paperheight> |
| width | width of the total body. width=<width>or totalwidth=<width>. This dimension should not be confused with textwidth, because width includes the width of marginal notes |
| height | height of the total body (including header and footer). height=<height> |
| left | left margin of the total body. In other words, the distance between the left edge of the paper and that of the total body.left=<leftmargin> |
| right | right margin of the total body. right=<rightmargin> |
| top | top margin of the total body. top=<topmargin> |
| bottom | bottom margin of the total body. bottom=<bottommargin> |
| margin | sets all margins of the total body. margin=<margin> |
| textwidth | modifies width of text (body). textwidth=<width> |
| textheight | modifies height of text (body). textheight=<height> |
| marginpar | modifies width of the marginal notes. marginpar=<length> |
| marginparsep | modifies separation between body and marginal notes. marginparsep=<length> |
| head | modifies height of header. head=<length> |
| headsep | modifies separation between header and text (body). headsep=<length> |
| foot | modifies distance separation between baseline of last line of text and baseline of footer. foot=<length> |
Set the height of the total body to be 10in, the bottom-margin 2cm, and the width default. The top-margin will be calculated automatically:
{geometry:height=10in,bottom=2cm}
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or
{g:height=10in,bottom=2cm}
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or
{geometry:height=10in}
{g:bottom:=2cm}
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Set the left-, right-, and top-margin 3cm, 2cm and 2.5in respectively. The page header is not used.
{geometry:left=3cm,right=2cm, nohead,
top=2.5in}
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or
{geometry:left=3cm}
{geometry:right=2cm}
{geometry:nohead}
{geometry:top=2.5in}
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or
{g:left=3cm,right=2cm}
{g:nohead, top=2.5in}
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and so on ...
Modify the width of marginal notes to 3cm and include marginal notes when adjusting horizontal partition
{geometry:marginpar=3cm}
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{geometry:marginpar=3cm, reversemp}
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makes the marginal notes appear in the left margin.
Use A5 paper in landscape mode.
{geometry:a5paper, landscape}
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