Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-20 Thread John Kane
Oh I downloaded and installed it with really no problem. It was just that I thought it should be a document class. Or something :( Thanks. On 20 May 2015 at 09:19, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2015-05-20 15:16 GMT+02:00 John Kane: > >> Thanks Jürgen, >> Somewhat OT but I was wondering how it w

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-20 15:16 GMT+02:00 John Kane: > Thanks Jürgen, > Somewhat OT but I was wondering how it worked. I combed through the > Document Class list three times and even Reconfigured looking for it > The layout is not included in the LyX distribution. You need to install it from an external source

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-20 Thread John Kane
Thanks Jürgen, Somewhat OT but I was wondering how it worked. I combed through the Document Class list three times and even Reconfigured looking for it On 20 May 2015 at 03:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2015-05-20 9:23 GMT+02:00 Guenter Milde : > >> Is there a chance to load ClassicThesis bef

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-20 9:23 GMT+02:00 Guenter Milde : > Is there a chance to load ClassicThesis before gemoetry to get a consistent > behaviour? > Note that we talk of a contributed style, which is not included in LyX. I think the proper solution would be to make ClassicThesis a class (not a style). For LyX

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-05-19, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > The crucial difference is probably that while using KOMA, typearea is > loaded first (by the class), then geometry (by LyX) which does the final > settings and overrides whatever KOMA sets via typearea. > With ClassicThesis, the classicthesis package is l

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-19 10:33 GMT+02:00 Guenter Milde: > > Well, in scrartcl.cls, I find > > \RequirePackage{typearea}[\KOMAScriptVersion] > > after a lot of > > \PassOptionsToPackage{...}{typearea}% > Right. I stand corrected. > > However, the geometry package seems to override the typearea settings.

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-05-18, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > Am Montag, 18. Mai 2015 schrieb Michael Berger : >> thank you for your input. With time constraints in the neck and almost no > LaTeX knowledge I switched to Document Class KOMA-Script Article. >> I

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Montag, 18. Mai 2015 schrieb Michael Berger : > thank you for your input. With time constraints in the neck and almost no LaTeX knowledge I switched to Document Class KOMA-Script Article. > I can now set the page margins as needed. :-) > This seems to be contradicting with your above explanation

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Berger
On 05/14/2015 04:12 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Classicthesis internally loads typearea (from the KOMA bundle), so you need to use the commands of that package to change the layout: \areaset{width}{height} As opposed to geometry (which is used by LyX), you cannot alter the margins directly

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-14 Thread Michael Berger
On 05/14/2015 04:12 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2015-05-14 16:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Berger : Hi Richard, I add the tex file as well. classicthesis-article is an example document from within André Miede's 'classicthesis-Lyx-v4.1' collection. None of the two allows for changin

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-14 16:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Berger : > Hi Richard, > I add the tex file as well. > classicthesis-article is an example document from within André Miede's > 'classicthesis-Lyx-v4.1' collection. > None of the two allows for changing the page margins. > While that was never necessary to do in

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-14 Thread Michael Berger
On 05/14/2015 02:45 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/14/2015 06:17 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Dear Lyxers, I am using a LyX example document where the Page margins are ticked as 'Default'. I can untick and then enter new values for the margins. However, I can see no change in the PDF document. Ha

Re: changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/14/2015 06:17 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Dear Lyxers, I am using a LyX example document where the Page margins are ticked as 'Default'. I can untick and then enter new values for the margins. However, I can see no change in the PDF document. Has anyone an idea why? What document class a

changing default margin settings shows no effect

2015-05-14 Thread Michael Berger
Dear Lyxers, I am using a LyX example document where the Page margins are ticked as 'Default'. I can untick and then enter new values for the margins. However, I can see no change in the PDF document. Has anyone an idea why? Michael Berger