In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Susan G. Kleinmann" writes: >Hi Hakan -- > >You asked: >> I have latex 2e-7 installed, but I can't find a4.sty a4wide.sty, in which >> package are they? > >I think the Latex-2e approach is not to use .sty files, but to use .cls >(class) files. Support for a4 letter paper is built into the article.cls >file, for example, but the option a4paper. >So, to get output formatted for a4 paper, you would invoke the article style >this way: > >\documentclass[titlepage, oneside, a4paper, 11pt]{article} >\usepackage{html} >\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} > >where the options "titlepage", "oneside", "11pt", etc., are all >optional (!); I just put them there to illustrate that you can have more >than 1 option in the []. I also added the statements regarding >"usepackage" as a further example of package-loading in latex-2e. > >If you'd like to read more about this, you might want to get a copy >of the boot "The LaTeX Companion", by Goosens, Mittelbach, and Samarin. > >HTH, >Susan Kleinmann > As the normal a4paper is not very wide, my office mate wrote a package to get bigger text-width. It can be invoked vai \usepackage{realA4}. Options are nohead, if no headers are used, and symetric, to place the text in the middle of the page
greetings, jan
% realA4.sty % % REALLY use A4 paper (based on longlines.sty) % % (c) 1995, 1996, Christian Cachin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) % % % USAGE: (in LaTeX2e only) % % \documentclass{anyclass} % % \usepackage[nohead,symmetric]{realA4} % % The optional `nohead' specifies that no headings will be used in the document % and therefore, the space reserved for it by LaTeX can be used for text. % % The optional `symmetric' specifies that even with the `twosided' option % the main text is centered on the page. % % % IMPLEMENTATION: % % The following is just the code to calculate \textwidth and several widths % that depend on it, copied 1-to-1 from classes.dtx. % \def\fileversion{1.1} \def\filedate{1996/07/23} \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{realA4}[\filedate\space\fileversion\ the real A4 page layout] \DeclareOption{nohead}{% \advance\textheight by \headheight% \advance\textheight by \headsep% \headheight 0pt% \headsep 0pt} \DeclareOption{symmetric}{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \setlength\paperheight {297mm} \setlength\paperwidth {210mm} \voffset 0pt \topmargin 0pt \ifcase [EMAIL PROTECTED] \textheight 54\baselineskip \or \textheight 47\baselineskip \or \textheight 43\baselineskip \fi \advance\textheight by \topskip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ProcessOptions [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\paperwidth} [EMAIL PROTECTED] {-\textwidth} \setlength\oddsidemargin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tempdima} \addtolength\oddsidemargin {-1in} \setlength\marginparwidth [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tempdima} \addtolength\marginparwidth {-0.4in} \else [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\paperwidth} [EMAIL PROTECTED] {-\textwidth} \setlength\oddsidemargin [EMAIL PROTECTED] \addtolength\oddsidemargin {-1in} \setlength\marginparwidth [EMAIL PROTECTED] \addtolength\marginparwidth {-.4in} \fi \ifdim \marginparwidth >2in \setlength\marginparwidth{2in} \fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \setlength\evensidemargin {\paperwidth} \addtolength\evensidemargin{-2in} \addtolength\evensidemargin{-\textwidth} \addtolength\evensidemargin{-\oddsidemargin} [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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