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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Visualizing the layout


At the time of designing a document, one may like to have an exact view of the dimensions and position of the text body, the header and footer, and the space for the margin notes. LaTeX can print help lines for you so you can examine the layout and use it to position extra elements.

How to do it...

Load the showframe package. This means the following steps:

  1. Open your document or a sample for testing. Here, we will use the very first document from Chapter 1, The Variety of Document Types.

  2. Add the following line at the end of your preamble:

    \usepackage{showframe}
  3. Compile the document. You will see frames around text body, margin note area, and header and footer:

  4. Examining the layout can give you ideas about making adjustments, such as changing the margins or other page dimensions. If you don't need these help lines any more, you can disable the package by commenting out \usepackage{showframe} or by deleting it.

How it works...

We simply loaded the showframe package. It prints...

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