[OS X TeX] Text area borders

Thomas Käufl kaeufl at ira.uka.de
Wed Mar 22 10:05:07 EST 2006


Am 22.3.2006 um 15:10 schrieb Alain Schremmer:

> Is there a way to show on the pdf the "text area", that is the  
> rectangle where LaTeX places text (as opposed to crop marks which  
> show the "logical page")?
>
> This would be nice when writing exams for eyeballing how much blank  
> space to leave between questions and, if possible, not break a  
> question.
>

Perhaps, this might help:

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,showframe}

The option "showframe" displays the rectangle where the text
is displayed into.

The documentation of this package is contained in

/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.pdf

Thomas Kaeufl


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