Page Layout ⇒ Margins not as expected if use pdflatex or texify

[zhao]

I've set the right and left margin as 1 inch in a letterpaper, and text width = 6.5in (= 8.5 - 1 - 1).

\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{1in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}

If I use texify or pdflatex to compile, the generated left margin is always wider, and the right margin is always shorter... Cannot figure out where these parameters got changed. Since I use winedt, I doubt that somewhere in the configuration of the execution mode of winedt does something unknown to me...

Anyone knows why? Thanks very much!

Phil

[localghost]

Set page and paper dimensions with the geometry package. See l2tabu.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten