Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2016 um 13:28:40, schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse <e...@lisse.na> > You are welcome. > > I like to leave the default page sizes as determined by LaTeX (in my case A4) > and I only mess with the margins very little (using DIV in Komascript), > unless I have really special cases. > > That way Portrait and Landscape work very well, by just clicking the switch. > > el > > > On 17 Jul 2016, at 12:44, Charlie <ariest...@ipstarmail.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:13:41 +0200 Dr mentioned this: > > Re: Landscape document........... > > > >> You switched the Height and Width around in > >> > >> Document Settings -> Page Layouts. > >> > >> > >> > > > > From my keyboard: > > > > Hello el, > > > > No. That's how they are. I just placed the sizes into the Height > > and Width locations as they are presented. > > > > See attached. This is obviously wrong. > > > > Are you suggesting that height actually means width and vise versa? > > > > Height means the width of the page? > > > > You are quite correct. > > > > That works in fact. It would seem the height of the page is the width > > of the page if you indicate "landscape". > > > > How confusing is that, for me at any rate. But then I'm not clever, so > > it's counter intuitive, for me at least. > >
We had similar problems with latex 'longtable', which we name now 'multi-page table'. Maybe we should rename here height and width to 'paper-length' and 'paper-width' or such. > > So the height remains the height if you turn the page with the > > landscape incantation. > > > > Okay, thank you for your help. It's much appreciated. I will try, when > > I have time, to leave it as portrait and just put in the dimensions. Not > > use landscape at all. > > > > Again, thank you, > > Charlie > > > > > > East Gippsland Wildlife Rehabilitators Inc.. > > http://www.egwildlife.com.au/ > > Kornel
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