.OverviewLaTeX's margins are, by default, 1.5 inches wide on 12pt documents, 1.75 inches wide on 11pt documents, and 1.875 inches wide on 10pt documents. This is the standard for book margins. If you want to change them, you have several options: the 'geometry' package, the 'fullpage' package or changing the margins by hand. GeometryThe geometry package is very powerful, but can also be complicated to use. By far the easiest way to use it is to specify the margin as an option to the package.
LaTeX question: Can you show a simple example of creating your own LaTeX command? Here is an example LaTeX file where I'm experimenting with various newcommand and renewcommand capabilities. The file actually contains six LaTeX examples, and in each step I add one more LaTeX feature that is a little harder than the previous step. In the last several examples I start passing parameters into my. LaTeX glossary and list of acronyms. January 2014 by tom 38 Comments. Most commands are straight forward. A few remarks on the term definition command newglossaryentry. The first argument it takes is the label used to produce the term later. The second argument is a key-value pair defining the term and its description.