On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Stefano Franchi wrote: > thanks for the remark, but I *read* Rich's suggestion carefully. In > fact I had already tried out what he suggested before bothering the list > with the question. It does not work because what LyX understands for > "margins" in the Layout>Document>Margins dialogue is the white space > between the edge of the paper and the main body text. At least that's what > I can gather from my tests. But I need to take into consideration > everything else that is printed outside the main body text: headers, page > numbers, etc. --that's what I mean by "text block." As rich suggested in > a separate post the answer is in the LaTeX Companion book. So that's where > I'll go next.
Stefano, I don't recall the details of what is in the body text size because that's not been an issue for me. TLC2 will clear up whether it includes header and footer. If not you'll have to play with it to get the proper size for your book. Fortunately, most of us have more reasonable publishers and we don't need to spend time on issues such as textheight and textwidth. Good luck! Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com>
