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I'm formating my dissertation which has to have
1.5in left margin
1in bottom, top ,and right margin
Numbers in top-right corner


And here's my MWE using the lipsum package

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fancyhdr} %to get page numbers in the upper right for ...

I was wondering if there was a way to replace the name of arguments in \newcommand from #1 to another variable name. For exmple, I have this latex code to write the multivariate normal CDF


\newcommand{\mvncdf}[3]{
\Phi_{#1}\left(#2\middle|#3\right)
}


I would like to replace the #1, #2, and #3 ...

The problem was the option "fit to printable area." When I switched page scaling to "none," the margins on the printout were one inch. Thank you!

I'm trying to have my document have one inch margins with the geometry package in latex. I don't have headers or footers besides with page numbers at the bottom. I write this in the preamble

\usepackage[margin=1in,nohead]{geometry}

However, I print this out and measure the margins but the margin ...

This works, thanks!

I'm trying to reduce the space between my text and equations. I mainly use the align environment. I tried using the commands \setlength\abovedisplayskip{0pt}
\setlength\belowdisplayskip{0pt}

In the preamble of my document, but these commands didn't seem to change anything. Below is an outline of ...

I figured it out, for some reason after the main bibtex commands I have a command \cite{*}

That I never paid much attention to but was the thing causing the problem.

When using bibtex, and the end of my bibliography after the last entry, I have an extra line that's as follows:

[]

So bibtex seems to creating an extra blank entry. I've looked through my bibtex file and can't find a blank entry or anything like that. Any suggestions?

Hi I recently updated Miktex, and now when I compile with PDFLaTeX using WinEdt, I get this message in the compiling command prompt.

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\ifvtex.sty")
======================================================================
starting package maintenance ...

I'm trying to create a math formula sheet for a math test, our professor lets us bring one that's one-paged, double sided. To cram as much stuff into here as possible, I don't want a lot of unnecessary white space. When I put space in the code in latex (to separate chunks of code), it creates a new ...