Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > > I guess that settles it. > > Statsformat is for non-Swedish readers, "government format". > Hopefully... just for fun I read some more at that site. This page was kind of interesting: http://www.books-on-demand.com/Kalkyl.asp you can enter

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread William Adams
Henrik Edlund said: >This is a jungle and nobody seems to know anything about it. Not >even the people responsible. Sigh. >I am going to talk to the university printers tomorrow and see if >they can shed some light on this. That's the proper place for an authoritative answer. Belike the inconsis

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> And I've also found that both G5 and S5 seems to be standard CR> formats... CR> CR> http://www.books-on-demand.com/handbok/bokens_format.htm CR> CR> they write that G5, 169x239 mm, for educational stuff, and CR> "Statsformat", 165x242 mm, f

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > CR> http://www.sgr.nada.kth.se/misc/tex/nadapkg/nadarapp.pdf > CR> > CR> where they say that a thesis is normally printed on the page format > CR> > CR> G5, 240mm x 170mm > CR> > CR> (I don't thi

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> http://www.sgr.nada.kth.se/misc/tex/nadapkg/nadarapp.pdf CR> CR> where they say that a thesis is normally printed on the page format CR> CR> G5, 240mm x 170mm CR> CR> (I don't think it's a typo... they use G5 in two places) CR> CR> They

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > CR> I'm leaning towards that the trimmed S5 size is about 168x236mm, since > CR> I actually measured the size as 168x238, and the extra 2mm in page > CR> width might well be because of the binding. (

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> I'm leaning towards that the trimmed S5 size is about 168x236mm, since CR> I actually measured the size as 168x238, and the extra 2mm in page CR> width might well be because of the binding. (It was also difficult in CR> general to measure the w

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > CR> That makes sense and could explain two of the sizes... but I've found > CR> lots of them... (there was also the sizes 165x240, 165x242 and 168x236) > CR> > CR> btw, I'd made a type above, the siz

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> That makes sense and could explain two of the sizes... but I've found CR> lots of them... (there was also the sizes 165x240, 165x242 and 168x236) CR> CR> btw, I'd made a type above, the size I'm using is 168x238. I guess that's CR> very close t

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Matej Cepl wrote: > Christian Ridderström wrote: > > I'm writing my thesis, and I've set the size after measuring the size > > of our thesis. I came up with 138x238 mm, but just now I tried searching > > for S5-format and found several sizes: 170x240, 165x238, 170x238 >

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Kornel Benko wrote: > But, why are you setting paper-width and height in the preamble.tex? > (The menu Layout->Document->Paper seems to be more natural) I can then include the preamble-file in other documents and get all the correct settings in one go... this is useful when

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Kornel Benko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003 14:07, Christian Ridderström wrote: > or just download a tar-file: > http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz Knowing nothing about S5, but nice example. But, why are you setting paper-width and height in the preamble.t

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Christian Ridderström wrote: > I'm writing my thesis, and I've set the size after measuring the size > of our thesis. I came up with 138x238 mm, but just now I tried searching > for S5-format and found several sizes:170x240, 165x238, 170x238 > > Does anybody know what the actual size rea

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > IP> I guess this is some swedish standard ? Accordingly to page: > IP> http://publications.uu.se/helpdesk/faq/ it is 164x242mm. You > IP> could try to use a regular report class and use custom page > IP

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: IP> I guess this is some swedish standard ? Accordingly to page: IP> http://publications.uu.se/helpdesk/faq/ it is 164x242mm. You IP> could try to use a regular report class and use custom page IP> size. If this s5report has something special you have

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 16 January 2003 11:29, skreiv Henrik Edlund: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > > HE> Hello list, > HE> > HE> I have been asked to write my thesis in the "latex book size S5" > HE> so it can

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-16 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: HE> Hello list, HE> HE> I have been asked to write my thesis in the "latex book size S5" HE> so it can be printed correctly, how do I set this in LyX? I can HE> only find A* and B* and the USA page sizes. Appearantly there

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-15 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: AP> Are you sure that format exists? A is pretty close to S on AP> most keyboards, so this might as well be a typo... It says so on several places in the instructions so it would be weird if they typed it wrong 5-6 times. Henrik -- "Nope, I'm just an o

Re: "Book size S5"

2003-01-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:07:55PM +0100, Henrik Edlund wrote: > I have been asked to write my thesis in the "latex book size S5" > so it can be printed correctly, how do I set this in LyX? I can > only find A* and B* and the USA page sizes. Are you sure that format exists? A i

"Book size S5"

2003-01-14 Thread Henrik Edlund
Hello list, I have been asked to write my thesis in the "latex book size S5" so it can be printed correctly, how do I set this in LyX? I can only find A* and B* and the USA page sizes. TIA, Henrik -- "Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose." --