Re: setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>>
>>> I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
>>> find with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
>>
>> You can use the LaTeX geometry package:
>>
>>   \usepackage[margin=0.25in]{geometry}
>>
>> HTH,
>
> Thanks, but since my LaTeX-fu and Org-fu are quite weak, where would I use
> this at?
>
> I can put it into the .tex file that is created manually, then run pdflatex 3
> times like org does, but there must be somewhere to put it into the org
> config, yes?
>

In the org file:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[margin=0.25in]{geometry}

If you want to make this the default, you can customize
org-latex-packages-alist:

(add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist
             '("margin=0.25in" "geometry" nil))

Nick