formattingpaper-sizetransformation
I have no really idea how to adapt the harvard-thesis template to B5 format. I found this post related with, but I don't know how to adapt it to my template:
Thesis template to B5 paper size. What about margins?
My University doesn't clarify the margins and other metrics.
Heres is a copy of the template I am using:
Here's a "proof of concept" using pgfpages instead of flashcards. This gives considerable flexibility on how virtual pages are placed on a physical page.
I had to emulate the look of the flashcards and probably got it horribly wrong. The \makeatletter ... \makeatother stuff is simply to add a border to the virtual pages without having to define a whole new page layout.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=.5\paperwidth,paperheight=.25\paperheight]{geometry}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pagestyle{empty}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pgfpagesuselayout{8 on 1}[a4paper]
\makeatletter
\@tempcnta=1\relax
\loop\ifnum\@tempcnta<9\relax
\pgf@pset{\the\@tempcnta}{bordercode}{\pgfusepath{stroke}}
\advance\@tempcnta by 1\relax
\repeat
\makeatother
\newenvironment{flashcard}[2][]{%
\noindent \textsc{#1}
\vfill
\centerline{{\Large\emph{#2}}}
\vfill
\newpage
}
{\newpage}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{flashcard}[Definition]{Method of Frobenius}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\begin{displaymath}
w(x,r)=(x-x_{0})\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_{n}(x-x_{0})^{n}
\end{displaymath}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\end{flashcard}
\begin{flashcard}[Definition]{Hamiltonian operator}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\begin{displaymath}
\textrm{\^H} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2 + V
\end{displaymath}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\end{flashcard}
\end{document}
Result:
Using the MWE below you can see that the margins in the PDF are those specified in the geometry package (that in this case you can simplify as commented above). So for example, you can see that in the diagram layout
(click on the image to zoom it) that \textwidth is 455pt (= 16 cm), that is the expected when the margins are 2.5 cm in a A4 paper.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry} % add also "showframe" options
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{layout}
\begin{document}
\layout
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
When printed the margins could be different because the position of the paper input tray or wrong printer options. In particular as you set "scale to fit" seem that you PDF has been zoomed to fit all the PDF (including margins) to the effective printing area of your printer (that hardly could be as big as the page area).
Best Answer
If you open the GitHub repo of the
Dissertateclass, and download the Harvard.zipfile, you can find theDissertate.clsfile that defines the class you want to use.In this class definition, you can observe that it loads
letterpaperoption by default (see e.g. line 14).The solution is thus to create a new class based on
Dissertate.cls, but that loads theb5paperoption instead ofletterpaper.Caution: when you modify one class, you should create a copy of it and rename it, since it's not the same class anymore. See below an example that you can save as
DissertateB5.cls. Following items have been changed:\ProvidesClass: updated with the new name\LoadClass: changed in order to load thebookclass with theb5paperoption\RequirePackage[<...>]{geometry}: load with theb5paperoption, instead ofletterpaperThus,
DissertateB5.clsand saved in the same directory as your.texdocument..texdocuments, use\documentclass{DissertateB5}where you used\documentclass{Dissertate}That's all !