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In article <6c9aql$1j5$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au>,
Glen Barnett <barnett@agsm.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>Sorry about crossposting, but I need to find an answer to this ASAP...
>
>How do I change margins in LaTeX? 
>
>I need to make a document with a 40mm left margin and a 30 mm right
>margin. My document is currently a report in 11 pt. I thought mucking
>about with a copy of the stuff that talks about margins in rep11.sty
>would fix it (I copied part of it to a new file, changed some numbers
>- specifically \oddsidemargin and \evensidemargin - and input that just 
>after the \documentstyle line).
>
>It didn't seem to make any difference.
>
>Am I totally barking up the wrong tree, or did I just miss something
>minor?

Okay, I'm all sorted out now. Once I knew I was fiddling with the
right things (yeah, I was changing \textwidth as well, didn't mention
that - and yeah, I knew the margin parameters above dealt with the left 
margin only), it was easy to figure out why what I was doing was having 
no effect. I had a file with some definitions in it I'd been given by my
supervisor. I didn't notice (and he obviously didn't know) that it
also changed the margins&textwidth parameters. So it was undoing all
my nice new margins before processing the text of my thesis.

(Oh, by the way, the version of latex on this machine isn't a recent
version, sorry to bother so many people by mentioning an ancient 
incantation like \documentstyle.)

Anyway, I got a number of useful suggestions very rapidly, but the
most immediately useful ones basically told me I was changing the 
right kinds of things. Thanks for all the help everyone.

thanks,
Glen