Re: Need bigger margin on first page only. It is impossible? Circumvent via LyX bug?

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks for the pointer.

In my preample I insert \usepackage{afterpage} and then at the top of 
page 1 I put in this

\afterpage{\addtolength{\topmargin}{0.5in}}

and it does move page two's margin up one half inch!  Awesome. 

Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:19:42 -0600
From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need bigger margin on first page only. It is impossible?  Circumvent 
     

via LyX bug?
 

Greetings!

I used Lyx with fancyhdr to put a big image in the header on the first 
page.  (Found info in LyX User Guide on fancyhdr).  To accomodate that  
1 inch image, I have to make the page top margin 1.5 inches.  If I don't 
make the margin that big, then the image in the header is pushed off the 
top of the page.

But that fancy page style is applied on page 1 only.  I use plain for 
the rest of the document.  I want to make the margin revert to 1 inch at 
the top on following pages. I've read through lots of emails about TeX 
and the conclusion seems to be that this is impossible.   geometry can 
only be accessed from the preamble on a document wide basis.

Is that true?  I can't hardly believe it.
     

AFAIR, you may not _define_ margins after the beginning of document,
but you may _change_ existing values, e.g. (in ERT)
\addtolength{\topmargin}{0.5in}
on page 1
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-0.5in}
on page 2.
Is this OK ?

 



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