Paul A. Rubin schrieb:
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
>> [...]
More precisely:
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
messed up the layout completely [...]
How did \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} mess up the layout?
It also changed the column width, which resulted in a 7 instead of 5 pages
document and made the "ACM copyright box" (a fixed area on the bottom of
the first column ACM uses for copyright and bibliographic information) run
into the second column.
I assume from your location that you usually want to use A4 and just
need letter for certain special situations (such as the one you
described). Attempting to do the reverse of what you want (switch from
letter, my default, to A4), I discovered that if you just change the
paper size in the LyX document settings, it supplies the new size as an
option to the document class, and pdflatex seems to ignore that. If you
also switch from default margins to custom margins, though, LyX loads
geometry and supplies the paper size (along with the margins) as options
to geometry, and for me that seems to work.
The point is that I do not want to specify margins (again), it should just
use whatever margins the class defines as default. I just want the package
to issue the backend-driver specific /special commands for defining the
paper size.
BTW: I observed a strange behavior that could be considered a bug (LyX
1.4.5, Windows & Linux): After I changed margins to "Custom" Lyx added, as
you described, a \usepackage[...]{gemometry} to the LaTeX preamble, which
resulted in the messing up I described. So I changed margins back to
"Default". However, from that point on LyX still included the geometry
package. In the end I had to revert to an older version of the document, as
I was not able to make LyX *not* include geometry. Can somebody else
confirm this? Probably a problem only with such brittle classes as ACM, though.
> I'm using a different class, though, so perhaps ACM is
> susceptible to format problems where AMS is not.
Well, yes :-) ACM classes are known to be quite fragile. The tools computer
scientists design for their own lot tend to be like that...
Thanks Paul!
Daniel
