General ⇒ Paper specifications

[Humberto Munoz]

Currently, I am using PCTex 6 Professional version. Could somebody helps me to obtain the following paper specifications?

1) Article is prepared in single-spaced, double-column format, on letter size paper (8.5''x11'').
2) On the first page, the distance from the top edge of the paper to the top of the first line of type (the title) should be 0.71".
3) On the second and subsequent pages, the distance from the top edge of the paper to the top of the first line of type should be 0.59".
4) The left and right margins should be 0.75".
5) The width of each column should be 3.22".
6) The distance between two columns of text should be 0.55".
7) The distance from the top edge of the paper to the bottom of the last line of type on the page should be no more than 10".
8) Use full justification.
9) Do not include page numbers in the paper.
10) Use a font of 9 points or greater Times New Roman. Use condensed line spacing rather than smaller point sizes.

Below are some commands that I have tried, but they do not give all specifications:

\documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{latexsym,graphicx,amssymb}
\setlength{\voffset}{-.2in}
\setlength{\textheight}{8in}
%\addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm}
%\addtolength{\hoffset}{-0.5cm}
\addtolength{\headsep}{0cm}
%\addtolength{\textwidth}{2cm}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1cm}
\nopagenumbers (undefined control sequence)

Thanks for your soon support.


Humberto Munoz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
Instead of using those length commands I recommend the geometry package. See it's detailed manual.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your response. How I can get the package goemetry?
Thanks
Humberto

Hi Humberto,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
Instead of using those length commands I recommend the geometry package. See it's detailed manual.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

PCTeX 6 provides a just-in-time package loader. So the easiest way may be: write into your document preamble:

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\usepackage{geometry}

and the geometry package should be installed. I guess it may already be installed because it's a very common and important package.
Set the options to the geometry package like it's described in the manual. The link I gave above, it's marked blue.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Thanks Stefan,
It works well, the page layout is almost as it is required. Only for the first page the top value is different than from the reminder pages, how I can do this change?

Since is not required page numbering, I used \pagestyle{empty}. It does not include ppage numbers in all pages but the first. How I can eliminate this page number?

Thanks
Humberto

Hi Humberto,

PCTeX 6 provides a just-in-time package loader. So the easiest way may be: write into your document preamble:

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\usepackage{geometry}

and the geometry package should be installed. I guess it may already be installed because it's a very common and important package.
Set the options to the geometry package like it's described in the manual. The link I gave above, it's marked blue.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

Only for the first page the top value is different than from the reminder pages, how I can do this change?

Do you use fancyhdr?
Do you get a warning or do you see a warning in your logfile regarding top margin or headheight? Sometimes the header content is too big and one has to correct it by \setlength{\headheight}{...}.

Since is not required page numbering, I used \pagestyle{empty}. It does not include ppage numbers in all pages but the first. How I can eliminate this page number?

Write inside the code fpr the first page:

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\thispagestyle{empty}

The first page (usually also pages where chapters start) otherwise may have pagestyle plain.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Stefan,
What I mean is that I am using the package geometry and the margins are equal for all pages; however, the requirement for the top margin of the first page must be different. How I change it only for this page?

Hi Humberto,

Only for the first page the top value is different than from the reminder pages, how I can do this change?

Do you use fancyhdr?
Do you get a warning or do you see a warning in your logfile regarding top margin or headheight? Sometimes the header content is too big and one has to correct it by \setlength{\headheight}{...}.

Since is not required page numbering, I used \pagestyle{empty}. It does not include ppage numbers in all pages but the first. How I can eliminate this page number?

Write inside the code fpr the first page:

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\thispagestyle{empty}

The first page (usually also pages where chapters start) otherwise may have pagestyle plain.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use \vspace*{length} to add some positive or negative space on the top of the first page, that seems to be easier compared to changing the layout inside the document, the geometry package is designed to work for the complete document although the package gmeometric allows the use of \geometry inside the document.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Stefan,
What I mean is that I am using the package geometry and the margins are equal for all pages; however, the requirement for the top margin of the first page must be different. How I change it only for this page?

Hi Humberto,

Only for the first page the top value is different than from the reminder pages, how I can do this change?

Do you use fancyhdr?
Do you get a warning or do you see a warning in your logfile regarding top margin or headheight? Sometimes the header content is too big and one has to correct it by \setlength{\headheight}{...}.

Since is not required page numbering, I used \pagestyle{empty}. It does not include ppage numbers in all pages but the first. How I can eliminate this page number?

Write inside the code fpr the first page:

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\thispagestyle{empty}

The first page (usually also pages where chapters start) otherwise may have pagestyle plain.

Stefan

Hi Stefan,
I tried all options: \pagestyle{empty}, \pagestyle{plain}. \thispagestyle{plain}, and \thispagestyle{empty}, but the first page is still numbered.

Do you have other idea?
Thanks
Humberto

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

important is to write \thispagestyle{empty} at the right place. Not in the preamble. After \begin{document} and before the second page starts.
But as you don't need plain pagestyle at all you can set it to be equal to empty. Write into your preamble before \begin{document}:

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\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty
\makeatother

Stefan