General ⇒ Wrong right margin

[meklenborg]

Hi

I've written an article, but the right margin is remarquably wider than the left. I've tried to exclude the Xyling document class, but that didn't have any effect. What should I do?

Here's my preamble:


\documentclass[12pt,b5paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[cyr]{aeguill}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage {linguex}
\usepackage{xyling}
\usepackage {chicago}
\usepackage{graphicx}



\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
% \strikeout{text}: prints a struck-out version of #1
\newlength{\howlong}
\newcommand{\strikeout}[1]{
\settowidth{\howlong}{#1}%
#1\unitlength0.5ex%
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(0,1){\line(-1,0){\howlong\divide\unitlength}}
\end{picture}%
}

Any suggestions?

Christine

[localghost]

Paper and page dimensions can be set with geometry. Have a look at its documentation.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[meklenborg]

A very good tip, but it didn't work. I tried the centering command as well as defining the margins, but with no luck.

C

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Christine,

perhaps provide a minimal working example (compilable) showing the margin problem. I've tested this preamble and got equal left and right margins, the problem could be caused by other code that you didn't post or by external tools used like driver or converter.

Stefan

[Juanjo]

Christine,

Although you don't ask anything about your \strikeout command, perhaps you may find useful the following code:

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\newcommand{\Strikeout}[1]{\settowidth{\howlong}{#1}\makebox[0pt][l]{\rule[0.5ex]{\howlong}{0.4pt}}#1}

Add it to the preamble and then compare

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The \Strikeout{quick brown fox} jumps over the \Strikeout{lazy dog}

The \strikeout{quick brown fox} jumps over the \strikeout{lazy dog}

Your macro leaves an undesirable space before the struck text.