[Tex/LaTex] A0 (landscape) sheet inside A4 paper

koma-scriptmarginspaper-size

Well I "can" do this using the koma options.. However it results in a warning and the effect isn't completelly what I like it to be.

First the way I do it is:

\clearpage
\KOMAoptions{paper=A3,paper=portrait}
\recalctypearea

\chapter{Chosen airfoil and wing shape}
\label{app:cad-airfoil}



\clearpage
\KOMAoptions{paper=A4,paper=portrait}
\recalctypearea

Now this results in a warning as follow:

/appendixAirfoil.tex: Package typearea Warning: Bad type area
settings! (typearea) The detected line width is about 55% (typearea)
larger than the heuristically detected line width. (typearea) You
should e.g. decrease DIV, increase fontsize (typearea) or change
papersize.

Another problem I have with above is that the margins are still relative to the paper size. Making the margins ridiculously large, and the actually area where I can put the cad drawing very small. (Ok I could put the cad at an offset from the margin, however then the accompanying text looks weird staring at a random position).

So How can I fix this problem with the margins (or problems, though I think it is the same one?). – Preferably just keep the same margins as A4 sheets, and if that's not easily possible manually set them?

Best Answer

Changing the papersize mid document is a strange thing for me. I would try to put stuff like that in the appendix.

Internally, package typearea takes care of laying out the text block on the page. With the code below you get an A0-page mid document, the high DIV value decreases the amrgin size and increases width and height of the text block.

But why does package typearea give a warning? Typearea tries to lay a certain amount of glyphs on the line to result in the best readability (which is said to be around 66 to 70 glyphs for a casual reader). As far as text is concerned, imagine holding an A0 page in your hand with a font size of just 11 pt. You would have to turn your head a lot. Hence the warning, »Hey, this is bad, think about it.«

Maybe it would be easier to include the pdf using \includepdf from package pdfpages?

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\storeareas\normalpage
\cleardoubleoddpage
\KOMAoptions{paper=a0,paper=landscape,pagesize,DIV=50,}
\blindtext
\cleardoubleoddpage
\KOMAoptions{paper=a4,paper=portrait,pagesize}
\normalpage
\blindtext
\end{document}

First way:

Reduce the height of the page to the minimal height by replacing a4paper with pagewidth=21cm,pageheight=4cm (here 21cm is the A4 width and 4cm depends on the text content and margin requirements).

\usepackage[top=2cm,hmargin=2.2cm,paperwidth=21cm,paperheight=4cm]{geometry}

Then create a second small LaTeX document which includes the PDF of the first using the pdfpages pages and places it multiple times on one page:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[page={1,1,1,1,1,1,1},nup=1x7]{mainfile}
\end{document}

This places the first document (called mainfile.tex/.pdf here) seven times on page. Adjust both the number of 1, and the number of nup=1x to the real number which fit on one page.

Example Result:

Result

Second way:

You could create the headers using normal text instead so it can be repeated over the page. A tabular would be adequate here. Putting the main text into one multi-column cell also prevents page breaks inside the text. The the text could be repeated using a loop. Adjust the \vspaces and the repeat numbers to fit your requirements.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[top=2cm,hmargin=2.2cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\newcount\num
\loop\ifnum\num<7
\par\noindent
\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}r@{}}
    \small \today & header \\
    \hline\noalign{\vspace{.5cm}}
    \multicolumn{2}{@{}p{\linewidth}@{}}{%
\hspace*{\parindent}% if par indent is required
 short text  short text  short text short text  short
text  short text  short text  short text  short text  short
text  short text short text  short text  short text  short
text short text  short text  short text  short text  short
text  short text  short text  short text  short text end of the text
}
\end{tabular}
\par\vspace{1cm}%
\advance\num by 1
\repeat

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Landscape, A3/A4 paper with XeTeX

You could use geometry for document layout and setting the page style (including plain) to empty.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage[margin=2cm,landscape,a3paper]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\pagestyle{empty}% Set page style to empty
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty% Make plain page style equivalent to empty page style
\makeatletter
\begin{document}
\chapter{First and only chapter}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}

The above MWE sets the document page style to empty, which has no header/footer nor header/footer rule. It then also sets the plain page style (\ps@plain) to be exactly the same as that of empty (\ps@empty), since these styles are used as the first pages for chapters within the book and report document classes (including memoir).

You could also have obtained a similar style (if small modifications are required at a later stage) by using the fancyhdr package. For that, the following preamble modifications would result in the same output:

%...
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Default is 0.4pt
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Default is 0.4pt
\fancyhead{}% Clear fancy page style header
\fancyfoot{}% Clear fancy page style footer
\pagestyle{fancy}% Set page style to fancy
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy% Make plain page style equivalent to fancy page style
\makeatletter
%...

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