By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 4, 2016
In the example below I'm showing how you can change a bunch of LaTeX document length parameters. The values don't really make any sense -- I've just thrown some numbers in there. I just want to remember how to do this for the next time I need to create a LaTeX PDF document.
(For what I'm trying to achieve today my goal was to get rid of all the margins on the left side of the page. Then I decided to throw in a few other values.)
I found some of these LaTeX examples on pp. 84-89 of The LaTeX Companion.
LaTeX document length examples
With no more warning, here's the code.
% % how to set page dimensions in latex % % % a "typical" documentclass config % \documentclass[twoside,11pt]{article} % % mess with a bunch of length parameters % \setlength{\paperwidth}{4.0in} \setlength{\paperheight}{8.1in} \setlength{\topmargin}{-1.5in} \setlength{\hoffset}{-1.5in} \setlength{\voffset}{-1.5in} \setlength{\textheight}{3.3in} \setlength{\textwidth}{4.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} % % your document goes here ... %