[Tex/LaTex] Pocket book size for novel (10.8 x 17.5 cm)

memoirpaper-size

Since a time I only use LaTeX for my writing requirements, for maths, histories, scripts, but this time I want to send a novel to a service like bubok or lulu or whatever that prints books to have it on my hands.

But it wasn't too easy at all, because I want to publish in a pocket book format (because of the book is about 50 pages, a short story) like I said in the topic (10.8 x 17.5 cm) and I spent few days looking for a configuration of the page size for memoir class, and my search is becoming a failure. So I decided to write here expecting some help for my madness idea.

Best Answer

The memoir class has its own set of macros for fixing the page layout, which differs from those of the geometry package.

The class has several pre-defined paper sizes, such as a4paper, letterpaper and b5paper. You can find them all (and what they mean) in the memoir manual. They are used as follows

\documentclass[b5paper]{memoir}

If you are not satisfied by the pre-defined sizes, then you can choose something different

\setstocksize{<height>}{<width>}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}{*}

You could have something like:

\documentclass{memoir}

\setstocksize{17.5cm}{10.8cm}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}{*}
\setlrmarginsandblock{1.2cm}{1.2cm}{*} % Left and right margin
\setulmarginsandblock{1.2cm}{1.2cm}{*}  % Upper and lower margin
\checkandfixthelayout 

\begin{document}

An awesome story...

\end{document}
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