Page Layout ⇒ Margins and page number problem

[michaela]

Dear all,


I'm a latex novice so forgive me if the remedy to this seems obvious. I have a problem whereby:

1) my even pages are headed by my name,
my odd pages are headed by my title of my MA dissertation.

2) my even pages have a page number in the topleft
my odd pages have no page number

3) mt even pages have a wider left margin than right margin
my odd pages have a wider right margin than left margin

I don't mind so much about the headers, though I'd like to be able customise them and can probably work out through a bit of reading around.
The big problem is the margins - I have no idea how to get them even.

Here is my preamble:

%%!TEX TS-program = latex
\documentclass[11pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...
%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for for rotated page geometry
%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}
\usepackage[OT4]{fontenc}
\usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{ecltree,rtrees}
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-tree}
\usepackage{qtree}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.3cm}
\usepackage{gb4e}

I use texshop on a macosx

Many thanks for any help,
Michaela

[frabjous]

If you want to customize these kinds of things, you shouldn't use the amsart document class, which is designed for use for AMS journal articles. (You can still get the mathematical options by loading the amsmath package instead.) Try something like:

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\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}

If your thesis has chapters. If it has only sections then perhaps:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

You might also check to see if your university has its own document class for theses. Many of them do.

This should already solve the uneven margin problem, though you can set options with the geometry package to make the margins work however you want. See its documentation or tell us exactly what you want to do.

If you're using a generic document class like one of the above, rather than one like amsart, you should be able to customize the headers and footers to your heart's content with fancyhdr package. Read its documentation, or tell us more specifically what you'd like them to be.