Re: Page dimensions in LaTeX save as.

AbiWord's LaTeX exporter hasn't seen work in about 6 years, and even
at its best wasn't particularly faithful. I wouldn't expect much from
it. Bug reports and patches are of course welcome.

Cheers,
Dom

On 8/1/07, John R. Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
> If I import a doc file, change its page dimensions to 5.5 x 8.5, and
> export the result to a LaTeX file the LaTeX file does not generate
> the paper size I set. The generated header looks like this:
>
> --
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{calc}
> \usepackage{setspace}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
> %% Please set your language here
> \usepackage[english]{babel}
> \usepackage{color}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
>
> \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.5000in-1in}
> \setlength{\textwidth}{\paperwidth - 0.6000in-0.5000in}
>
> AFAIK the correct way to set page dimensions for a non-standard page
> size in LaTeX is to use the geometry package.
>
> Ideally the LaTeX output file would reflect what was set in Abiword
> and not require hand manipulation afterwords.
>
> John Culleton
> Able Indexing and Typesetting
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