Document Classes ⇒ [Solved] Page Layout help with Memoir (or something else?)

[Elomis]

Hi guys,
I've put together a book and am trying to get a PDF which is the standard "Royal" 6.139" x 9.21".
Despite trying pretty hard to understand the paper size vs text block size vs other stuff that the memoir class provides, I can't get my DVI (or resultant PDF) to look anything like a sensible book, typically I find the textblock overflows the page and the error printout is showered with "overfull hbox".

Is there a easy-to-read way, or an example, on how to typeset a document onto a standard royal booksize?

[josephwright]

Can you post an example of what you've tried, using something like lipsum to fill the pages with text. It will be easier to help if we see what you've tried.

Joseph Wright

[Elomis]

Sure,

What I've done is something similar to the following, if you compile this the resultant DVI shows my problem. Sorry about the wall of lorem ipsum but it needs to run to two pages because it's the recto pages that are stuffed(er).

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\documentclass{memoir}
\setstocksize{9.21in}{6.139in}
\settrimmedsize{8.81in}{5.744in}{*}
\settypeblocksize{6in}{4in}{*}

\begin{document}
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\end{document}

[l0calh05t]

Instead of putting actual lipsum text in there, wouldn't it be better to use the lipsum package?

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setstocksize{9.21in}{6.139in}
\settrimmedsize{8.81in}{5.744in}{*}
\settypeblocksize{6in}{4in}{*}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-6]
\end{document}

[Elomis]

Thanks for that tip, do you maybe have anything on-topic to assist?

[l0calh05t]

I have never used memoir before, but did you try putting the \set... commands inside \begin{document}...\end{document}

This seems to work correctly:

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\setstocksize{9.21in}{6.139in}
\settrimmedsize{8.81in}{5.744in}{*}
\settypeblocksize{6in}{4in}{*}
\lipsum[1-10]
\end{document}

[Elomis]

How odd, that seems to have worked. Thanks very much!