LaTeX Margins
May 19th, 2009
Was writing a formula sheet for my quantum mechanics exam today, and needed to maximize usage of my available space on a piece of A4 paper. So I googled some solutions to get LaTeX to do just that. In addition to using the /tiny command to make small text of course.
Firstly I needed to minimize the margins, so I added this in the header:
\setlength\topmargin{-3cm}
\setlength\textheight{27cm}
\setlength\textwidth{19cm}
\setlength\oddsidemargin{-1.5cm}
\setlength\evensidemargin{-1.5cm}
Then I needed to split the page into 3 columns so I wouldn’t waste too much space at each lineshift:
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
\tiny
\begin{multicols}{3}
...text...
\end{multicols}
And last but not least, get rid of that annoying huge indent that the align environment has.
\documentclass[fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\makeatletter
\setlength\@mathmargin{0.2cm}
\makeatother