Page Layout ⇒ centre the text

[allevo]

hi!!!!
i have a problem: I'd want that my text is centre in the page. i create new page style with this command:

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\newpagestyle{chapterpage}
{
\addtolength{\voffset}{-1in}
\addtolength{\hoffset}{-1in}
\setlength\topmargin{0mm}
\setlength\headheight{0mm}
\setlength\headsep{0mm}
\setlength\marginparsep{0mm}
\setlength\marginparwidth{0mm}
\textwidth = 0.9\paperwidth
\setlength\oddsidemargin{0.05\paperwidth }
\setlength\evensidemargin{\oddsidemargin}
}

ad I apply with this line:

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\chapter{ola!!}
\pagestyle{chapterpage}
text

but the text is not centre. why?! and how can i centre the text?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Allevo,

do you want to center horizontally or vertically? Try \centering or \begin{center} ... \end{center} for the first. To center vertically you could insert \vspace*{\fill} both at the beginning and at the end of the page.

Stefan

[allevo]

i apologize..... I wish that my text is centered with respect to page. the space of the text isn't center.
can i follow my aim with this

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\textwidth = 0.9\paperwidth
\setlength\oddsidemargin{0.05\paperwidth }

?!?!?!?!?!?

[localghost]

Forget about all those settings and use the geometry package to set up page dimensions.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[allevo]

I used this and it worked

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\usepackage{anysize}
\marginsize{0.1\paperwidth}{0.1\paperheight}{2cm}{2cm}

is correct?!?!

[localghost]

The anysize package is obsolete and should be replaced by the earlier suggested geometry package.