Chapter 4. The Layout of the Page
In this chapter we will see how to specify different page layouts. Often a single document requires several different page layouts. For instance, the layout of the first page of a chapter, which carries the chapter title, is generally different from that of the other pages in that chapter.
We first introduce LaTeX’s dimensional parameters that influence the page layout and describe ways to change them and visualize their values. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of the packages typearea and geometry, both of which provide sophisticated ways to implement page layout specifications. The third section deals with the LaTeX concepts used to provide data for running headers and footers. This is followed by ...
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