Re: How does one change the margins on one page only? SOLVED
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:39, Sara Stymne wrote: Hi! The latex package chngpage might be useful. /Sara Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one change the margins on one page only? I need the first page (I'm not using a title page -- I'm ERT'ing it) to be an image that goes paper edge to paper edge. Thanks SteveT Thanks Sara, The chngpage package was indeed part ofthe solution. To summarize the requirements leading up to this, on my Ebook I wanted to have my book cover be a large .jpg inserted into my LyX file. No problem clashing with the title enviroments or commands, because I used ERT for the entire frontmatter. The only thing is, I needed to change the front page (the one with the book cover .jpg) to accommodate a .jpg almost 8.5x11, and of course the document's native vertical and horizontal margins are nothing like that. I tried exclusively using commands from chngpage, but although that accommodated the graphic, it screwed up the rest of the document, and I found no way to confine it to an environment or \begingroup{}\endgroup pair. So in the end, here's what I did... \enlargethispage{1.85in}~\vskip -1.9in\leftskip -1.8in\hfill\vfill (graphic goes here) \vfill\hfill\thispagestyle{empty} \leftskip 0in\rightskip 0in (page after cover goes here) Of the preceding ERT, only \enlargethispage{} comes from the chngpage package. Be aware that the balance between values of \enlargethispage{}, \vskip, \leftskip, \rightskip, and the size of the graphic are tricky. I came upon many situations where the graphic would shoot all the way to one side or the other (that's why I put in the \hfill commands), and also from the top to the bottom (I believe the way it works is that the value of \enlargethispage{} must exactly accommodate the vertical size of the graphic). If this sounds like a lot of work, keep in mind that in my last book, I had to use pdftk to put a cover graphic on it, and pdftk screwed up the physical page numbering. Once again, thanks Sara, and all the rest of you who have helped me. SteveT
Re: How does one change the margins on one page only? SOLVED
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:39, Sara Stymne wrote: Hi! The latex package chngpage might be useful. /Sara Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one change the margins on one page only? I need the first page (I'm not using a title page -- I'm ERT'ing it) to be an image that goes paper edge to paper edge. Thanks SteveT Thanks Sara, The chngpage package was indeed part ofthe solution. To summarize the requirements leading up to this, on my Ebook I wanted to have my book cover be a large .jpg inserted into my LyX file. No problem clashing with the title enviroments or commands, because I used ERT for the entire frontmatter. The only thing is, I needed to change the front page (the one with the book cover .jpg) to accommodate a .jpg almost 8.5x11, and of course the document's native vertical and horizontal margins are nothing like that. I tried exclusively using commands from chngpage, but although that accommodated the graphic, it screwed up the rest of the document, and I found no way to confine it to an environment or \begingroup{}\endgroup pair. So in the end, here's what I did... \enlargethispage{1.85in}~\vskip -1.9in\leftskip -1.8in\hfill\vfill (graphic goes here) \vfill\hfill\thispagestyle{empty} \leftskip 0in\rightskip 0in (page after cover goes here) Of the preceding ERT, only \enlargethispage{} comes from the chngpage package. Be aware that the balance between values of \enlargethispage{}, \vskip, \leftskip, \rightskip, and the size of the graphic are tricky. I came upon many situations where the graphic would shoot all the way to one side or the other (that's why I put in the \hfill commands), and also from the top to the bottom (I believe the way it works is that the value of \enlargethispage{} must exactly accommodate the vertical size of the graphic). If this sounds like a lot of work, keep in mind that in my last book, I had to use pdftk to put a cover graphic on it, and pdftk screwed up the physical page numbering. Once again, thanks Sara, and all the rest of you who have helped me. SteveT