[ILUG] Latex Q

[Caolan McNamara]

On 08-Jun-99 John P. Looney wrote:
> Anyone know how to get Latex to use an A4 page size, instead of something
>else, like Letter ?
>
> I start all my docs with: 
>
>\documentclass{article}
>\begin{document}
> 
> Is this right ?
>
>Kate

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
some test text
\end{document}

or for "verysmall margins", which are just about right for me use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\begin{document}
some test text
\end{document}


you can also use the geometry package to get more fine grained control
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,a4paper,tmargin=5mm,bmargin=10mm,lmargin=15mm,rmargin=20mm}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

where the margins are 
top 5mm
bottom 10mm
left 15mm
right 20mm

C.

P.S. does anyone know a good mechanism to convert an arbitrary unicode/utf-8 
character into a latex character ?, i know that there is a chinese tex so there
must be some way to at least convert european letters and chinese and maybe
others ? into latex automagically.


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