Re: Asymmetric margins

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:55 PM 4/4/2002 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
>  I would like to set up:
>  left margin=.5in and right margin= 1.5in for right hand pages,
>  left margin=1.5in and right margin .5in for left hand pages.
>
>  This leaves room for a sidebar (marginal text) on the outer
>  edge of either page type.

it's always dangerous to change dimensions while tex is not yet finished 
with a page (you never know where tex will break), however, you can say:

\definelayout[odd] [width=10cm]
\definelayout[even][width=12cm]
\definelayout[3]   [width=5cm]

and give \dorecurse{100}{\input tufte \par}

a try; this demonstrates that you can fool around with margins on left and 
right pages

Hans

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