Hi I have the following preamble in my thesis :
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\setlength{\textwidth}{17cm}
\setlength{\parskip}{3mm}
\setlength{\parindent}{0mm}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{images/}}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{xparse,nameref}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage[nokeyprefix]{refstyle}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{thmtools}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{thm-restate}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\DeclareMathOperator{\lcm}{lcm}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ord}{ord}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{4pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{4pt}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\setlength\defaultaddspace{2ex}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs,caption}
\usepackage[figuresleft]{rotating}
\usepackage{rotating}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\Centering\arraybackslash}X}
\newcommand\swb{{\scriptstyle\Box}} % "small white box"
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.multipart}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{amssymb,bm}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{upgreek} %use uptau greek letter
\usepackage{comment} %choose parts not to compile
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{mynode/.style={fill=white,text=black,font=\tiny,inner sep=1pt}}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{0.5in}
\newenvironment{numberlists}[1][3\parindent] %for long numberlist command
{\begin{list}{}{%
\leftmargin=#1\relax
\rightmargin=\leftmargin
\itemsep=\jot
\parsep=0pt
\partopsep=0pt
\labelsep=0pt}}
{\end{list}}
\newcommand\numlist[2]{%
\item[]\makebox[0pt][r]{$#1=\lbrack$}%
\begingroup
\begingroup\lccode`~=`,\lowercase{\endgroup\def~}{\mathcomma\penalty0 }%
\mathcode`,="8000
\thinmuskip=6mu plus 6mu minus 2mu
$#2\rbrack$%
\endgroup
}
\mathchardef\mathcomma=\mathcode`, %end of numberlist command
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-1in} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-1in}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{20mm}\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{20mm}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{40pt} \setlength{\marginparsep}{10pt}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-5mm} \setlength{\headsep}{0.5in}
\setlength{\textheight}{227mm} \setlength{\textwidth}{165mm}
\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{0.8} % Default = 0.5
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{dkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.6,0}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.5}
\definecolor{mauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\lstset{
language=Java,
aboveskip=3mm,
belowskip=3mm,
showstringspaces=false,
columns=flexible,
basicstyle={\small\ttfamily},
numbers=none,
numberstyle=\tiny\color{gray},
keywordstyle=\color{blue},
commentstyle=\color{dkgreen},
stringstyle=\color{mauve},
breaklines=true,
breakatwhitespace=true,
tabsize=3
}
I know that my premable is a mess and am trying to fix it. The problem here is that i have \usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
and it does not seem to work because when I print my thesis the margin is different. top margin is 4.5 cm, bottom, left and right margin are all 2.5 cm. I think this has something to do with my numberlist command in my preamble (because there's a different margin set up in that command). Is there a way to fix it. The grad school refuse to accept my thesis for submission because of the margin issue. It should be 2cm top bottom left right.
Best Answer
Remove this line, it will be undone anyway by the
geometry
packageUnrelated to your margins but are you sure that you want a fixed length for
\parskip
together with\flushbottom
it will mean that pages with a paragraph are almost always going to be infeasible and generate under or over full box warnings.This is the form that you want to specify the page size, but normally you should also use
heightrounded
so that the specified size matches the baselinesip.Don't use
epsfig
don't use
enumerate
if you are usingenumitem
(they patch the same environment)Don't load
rotating
here if you loaded it on the previous lineYou have loaded tikz already
Don't do this it undoes the geometry settings
The comment here is wrong, numberlist ended above.
Delete all these lines they undo the geometry settings
Are you sure you want this, it makes float pages hard to form and increases the chance that all floats go to the end of the document