Page Layout ⇒ memoir | Page Width not working

[niles]

Hi

Please take a look at this MWE:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlingpage}
\aliaspagestyle{titlingpage}{empty}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{
  \newpage
  \null
  \vskip 2em%
  \vspace*{\droptitle}
  \maketitlehooka
  {\hspace{-\spinemargin}
   \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{Untitled-1} }
  \maketitlehookb
  \maketitlehookc

  \maketitlehookd
}
\makeatother

\maketitle

\end{titlingpage}

\end{document}

I have attached the picture "Untitled-1.pdf", which is just a black picture. My problem is that even though I use page width, the picture doesn't go fill the left part of the page. I'm not quite sure why, really, since nothing should change the page width.

The above is a MWE of this code, which interchanges the position of the author and the title in memoir: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 986#p55986

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,
Niles.

[niles]

Is my question poorly formulated or is the issue cumbersome or something else?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Niles!

For example, there's a line break in the code after \hspace{-\spinemargin}, which has the effect of a white space. You could write that line

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  {\hspace{-\spinemargin}%

I often use a construction similar to

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\noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{Untitled-1}}

for centering a wide image in relation to the text body, here with \paperwidth, which would be ok given symmetric margins, see Centering wide tables or figures.

Stefan

[niles]

Ah, I see. Thanks for taking the time to help!

Thread solved.