Page Layout ⇒ HELP! How to get different margins within the document

[LeCoqFou]

Hello,
I'm a newbie to LYX and LATEX. I have the following problem:

I have defined the page margins in my document in the settings
top: 2cm
inner: 2cm
outer: 2cm
bottom 2.5cm

Now I need a part of the document (after page 8) the following
margins:

top:2cm
inner:6cm
outer:2cm
bottom:2.5cm

How can I do that. Please help me - it's urgent (deadline is tomorrow)

THX

[frabjous]

You could either try the gmeometric package, though that's not exactly failsafe ... or make two documents and merge them with pdfpages. Seach CTAN for the packages and documentation.

[localghost]

The manuals for the packages mentioned by frabjous are also located on your local machine. Open a command prompt (or terminal) to get access.

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texdoc pdfpages

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[tiz]

It doesn't work for everything but a very simple solution is to set up an environment with an indent

\newenvironment{myenvironment}{\leftskip=4cm \rightskip=0cm}

It may be a problem if you then try to use another environment inside that environment as I found they revert to the normal margins, but if you're not inserting any propositions or theories or anything like that you might get away with it.

[localghost]

It doesn't work for everything but a very simple solution is to set up an environment with an indent [...] It may be a problem if you then try to use another environment inside that environment as I found they revert to the normal margins, but if you're not inserting any propositions or theories or anything like that you might get away with it.

This is a good idea and makes me suggest the narrow environment introduced in the epslatex document. This will work with page breaks since it internally is a list environment.