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1/24/2006

produce LaTeX documents with regular letter margins

i've never really understood those small default latex margins. perhaps they're for some kind of really small paper. in any case, if you're printing on regular letter-sized paper (8.5 X 11) and don't want to kill so many trees, try the following document settings:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\setlength\textwidth{6in}
\setlength\textheight{8in}
\setlength\oddsidemargin{0.25in} % LaTeX adds a default 1in to this!
\setlength\evensidemargin{0.25in}
\setlength\topmargin{-0.0in} % LaTeX adds a default 1in to this!
\setlength\headsep{0in}
\setlength\headheight{0in}
\setlength\footskip{1in}


2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Um, I'm not sure, but my understanding was that it was for readability--there's a certain number of characters per line that is easiest to read on a page, something between 60 and 70, and the default margins are set for the writing to be that wide. There's a package called a4wide that narrows them a bit, as an alternative.

2/13/2006 04:43:41 PM  
Tigerhawk Vok said...

Also the "Savetrees" package, and "fullpage" package. However, this setup is really grand if you're making a formula sheet that's nice and typed up...

2/20/2006 07:08:54 PM  

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