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off topic A4 paper

3 messages · Erin Hodgess, Marc Schwartz (via MN), Ioannis Dimakos

Erin Hodgess
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Dear R People:

Please excuse the off topic question.

What are the dimensions of A-4 Paper, please?

Actually, the question should read, "how do I set up a LaTex file
to fix A-4 paper, please?"

Thanks much!
Sincerely,
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
Marc Schwartz (via MN)
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On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:16 -0600, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Set the documentclass in your LaTeX source file to:

  \documentclass[a4paper]{...}

as opposed to:

  \documentclass[letterpaper]{...}


In addition, if you are using latex+dvips, you may need to specify the
a4 papersize on the dvips command line using the '-t' argument:

  dvips -t a4 InputFile.dvi -o OutputFile.ps

if the default system setting is for letterpaper, which will likely be
the case for U.S. based installs.

a4 paper is 210 mm x 297 mm.

There is a TeX FAQ here which might be helpful:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
Ioannis Dimakos
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On ??????, ???????????????????? 28, 2005 0:16, Erin Hodgess wrote:
There are several ways:

1) In documentclass as an option
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
2) Use the package vmargin which allows for setting in a much easier way
both the margins and the papersize.

HTH,

Ioannis