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Article #2555Help! Inside/Outside Margins in 2-Sided TeX Document
From: Edward Van Cura
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:38
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:38
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Please help me...
I would like to produce a document which is double-sided with
the inner margins set at 1.0in and the outer margins set at 0.5in.
I am using doublecolumns with eplain-1.9.
I set the \topmargin and \bottommargin at 0.5in each, then initialize
the \hoffset with
\ifodd\pageno \hoffset=0.0in \else \hoffset=-0.5in\fi
(an article may start on page 26, for example)
Then I need a way to reverse the margin settings at the end of the
page in preparation for the next page. First I tried to tack the
\ifodd statement listed above onto the \headline{} routine, since I
thought TeX would look at it during the \output routine
at the end of every page. This failed to get the desired effect.
Then I tried to make the margin change by sticking the \ifodd statement
in what I thought was the \output routine token list. No dice.
I've spent 3 days squinting at the TeXbook, TeX for the Impatient,
the eplain docs, the TeX FAQ file, and searching several ftp sites
for a ready-made macro.
Any advice or pre-fab macros would be greatly appreciated.
Edward Earl van Cura
evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Edward Van Cura) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Help! Inside/Outside Margins in 2-Sided TeX Document Message-ID: <78076@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 20 Aug 92 17:38:03 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Lines: 28