"Karen P. Watkins" wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.1.6. I am VERY impressed and am
> planning on using it for my thesis work. It is very intuitive and
> straight forward. I have completed the tutorial and read through the
> users guide (mostly). The only thing (so far) that I can not seem to
> get to work is changing the margin sizes in the document. Specifically,
> under Layout/Document/Paper, when I type anything into Margins/Top,
> Bottom, Left, Right, the OK button grays not allowing me activate these
> changes. According to the documentation, you must have geometry package
> installed to use this option. I looked through the LaTeXConfig.lyx file
> and it shows that I have the geometry package installed. What am I
> doing wrong? I have Red Hat 6.2. I downloaded rpm binaries from
> ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ file name: lyx-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm. I also
> downloaded and installed xforms-0.88-3.i386.rpm. I appreciate any
> insight.
>
> Thanks
> Karen
Hi Karen,
did you check the "use package geometry" option in Layout-> Document ->
Paper? Did you enter a valid measure unit like "mm"?
hth
Stephan
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