I try to set up the left and right margins to 1 inch, top and bottom margins to 0.5 inch. The following is my code:
% Setup the margin
\usepackage[centering, margin={1in, 0.5in}, includeheadfoot]{geometry}
\setlength{\headheight}{0.6in}
\setlength{\headsep}{25pt}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\footskip}{25pt}
\setlength{\marginparsep}{11pt}
But I don't know why the result doesn't show me the correct page setup.
As you can see, obviously the bottom margin is 0 and the footer is missing. That's not what I set up. Could anybody tell me what's wrong with my code? and how to fix it?
Thank you very much.
Best Answer
Because you overrode the default settings defined by the
geometry
package (such as\footskip
) then the last settings will be applied to take effect. You set\footskip
to25pt
and that is too small!I recommend that you use
geometry
's settings only rather than mixing them with native length macros. The following native length macros should not be used if you have already loaded thegeometry
package.The link How to avoid getting cropped marginpar? and the following code snippet may help you to understand how to set up the page layout.
If you need more, drop a comment.