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Latex page, line and font settings

1. March 2012 by tom 17 Comments

I was recently asked to write a three page assignment/case study using the following page, line and font settings: Arial, size 12 1.5 line spacing 2.5cm margin all round Let’s do one by one.   Font type and size Font types are actually a bit of a pain in Latex and so far, I have … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: Arial, font, font size, fontspec, geometry, Helvetica, LaTeX, margin, onehalfspacing, setspace, usepackage, XeLaTeX

Making page margins visible

4. April 2011 by tom 7 Comments

The package showframe makes the page margins visible and hence is a handy tool if you have problems with the document margins. It will display a box showing the margins as well as lines for the header and footer. If you only need to show margins for a particular page, use: and at the page: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: footer, header, LaTeX, margin, showframe, usepackage

Margin notes in LateX

26. September 2008 by tom 3 Comments

Adding margin notes to a document is more convenient and better noticable than comments between the lines. Latex provides a very easy way to add margin notes without changing the margins of your document. You can add anything you like, e.g. a formula in the math environment, etc. And you don’t even need to use … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: LaTeX, margin, margin notes




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