Hi,
Do like Vincent said
To get MS-Word margins
Go to Document > settings > page margins
and use Top/bottom 2.54
right/left margins 3.17.
Another options is to plug into the preamble
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,lmargin=3.17cm,rmargin=3.17cm}
But then, if you have a heading, you need to fix that, because it will still
be in default, more narrow.
Erez
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW <
v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
> >Hey all,
> >
> >I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except
> >one problem.
> >
> >When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the
> >page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of
> >the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is
> >elongated to many pages than it will actually be.
>
> >But, this is not the case in latex or when you convert
> >word to pdf.
>
> This depends on the document class you use. With the same document
> class, this should be the same as in latex.
>
> >So, what is the solution for this problem. Is there some
> >setting that can increase the length of text per line so
> >that the text covers most of the page?
>
> You could either choose a different document class (in
> "Document->Settings...->Document Class"), or you may adjust the Page
> Format (in "Document->Settings...->Page Layout") or you might want to
> choose other Page Margins (in "Document->Settings...->Page Margins).
>
> Vincent
>
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Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
