Re: setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file

[jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:59 AM, J. David Boyd <jdavidboyd@adboyd.com> wrote:
>> 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 have a line at the top like so:
>
> #+latex_header: \usepackage[margin=0.25in]{geometry}
>
> (Mine's different, but that's the analog for this case). Anything you
> would normally put in LaTeX straight-up, like commands, settings,
> packages, etc. would go into #+latex_header: lines in Orgmode. Here's
> an example of my default setup:
>
> #+AUTHOR:    John Henderson
> #+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t H:5 creator:nil
> #+latex_header: \usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,vmargin=2.5cm]{geometry}
> #+latex_header: \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage{paralist}
> #+latex_header: \usepackage{enumitem}
> #+latex_header: \setlength{\parskip}{0.5cm} \setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
> #+latex_header: \usepackage{lscape}
> #+latex_header: \usepackage{booktabs}
> #+latex_header: \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
>
> Just wanted to give an example of how you might setup Org to do what
> you want in LaTeX/PDF output.
>
> To go even further, I don't even have the above in each Org file. I
> keep it in ~/org/aux/setupfile.org. Then in each file I create, I use
> this line:
>
> #+setupfile: "~/org/aux/setupfile.org"
>
> So, for any regularly used options, I just leave them in setupfile.org
> and bring them in with the above line for new files. For things I want
> to set per-file, I'd add a file-specific #+latex_header line, or tweak
> the #+options parameters.
>
>
> John
>

Thanks very much!  Exactly what I was looking for.

Dave