General ⇒ Margins in documents

[Wolf77]

Hi All,

I am currently working on the final formatting of my dissertation.
I am working with a the report document class.
My university has specific margin requirements:
1. Top, bottom and right margins need to be at least 1 inch and the left margin at least 1.5 inches,
2. The page number needs to be at least 1 inch from bottom of page,
3. There should be 2 spaces between the page number and bottom of the text.

I am using the geometry package to handle the margins:
\usepackage[left=1.6in, top=1.1in, bottom=1.5in, right=1.1in]{geometry}

While conditions 1 and 2 are satisfied, I have problem with condition 3.
Can anyone help me with the right command here?

Thank for you help in davance,
Wolf

[phi]

Hello,
the distance between the baseline of the text body and the baseline of the footer is controlled by the parameter \footskip. This can also be set using the geometry package, using option footskip. You will probably have to use the option includefoot to fulfill requirement 2. Here is an example:

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\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[includefoot, margin=1in, footskip=3\baselineskip]{geometry}
\usepackage{layout}

\begin{document}
\layout
\end{document}

[Wolf77]

Thanks Phi.
It worked perfectly.