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A LaTeX template for dissertations at the University of British Columbia
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Do the margins need to be set, or should they be included in the cls file? #3

Closed sethmg closed 11 years ago

sethmg commented 11 years ago

Hi Brian, First, thanks for creating and maintaining this style. It is immensely helpful to everyone who wants to use LaTeX for their theses.

The issue I'm having is that the margins are all wrong in the example document that you provide with the package (diss.tex). I've uploaded a copy of the output to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hoqfb6oedjsl66v/diss.pdf and you can see that the margins are very large, not the 1" margins recommended by UBC FoGS.

I know that the margins on 8.5x11 inch pages are typically pretty wide in a default LaTeX document (a very good explanation is given at: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71172/why-are-default-latex-margins-so-big), and I can fix the issue by putting the command \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} in the preamble, but I was wondering if this should be set in the cls file.

I'm using TeXLive (2012.20120611-4) on an Ubuntu 12.10 computer.

sethmg commented 11 years ago

The answer to this post is in section 1.7.1 of diss.pdf. My apologies for missing it.