[OS X TeX] Text area borders

[Adam Goldstein]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> 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.
>

Regarding the exams, there is a package for writing exams, which will  
do a good job of spacing out the questions. You can also produce a  
version of the exam with solutions, and produce notation for each  
question indicating how many points it is worth, a space for totaling  
the points on each page, and other niceties. You can find it on ctan,  
I believe; it is by Philip Hirschhorn, and it is called exam.cls.

Maybe you already knew this and don't like the exam package, and  
that's why you are doing this on your own.

-Adam
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Adam Goldstein
Department of Philosophy
The Johns Hopkins University
adam.goldstein at jhu.edu

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