[Tex/LaTex] Aligning a minipage in the absolute top left

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I'm formatting a cover design in LaTeX. The cover has pages of 145×210mm which includes 3mm margin. The side should be 13.93mm wide and the bleed is 3mm. This gives me the following code, which declares three minipages: one for the back of the book, one for the side, and one for the front.

\documentclass[paper=303.93mm:210mm,10pt]{scrbook}

\usepackage[margin=0pt]{geometry}
\usepackage[center,cross,width=309.93mm,height=216mm]{crop}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}%
\begin{minipage}{145mm}
\lipsum[0-5]
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{13.93mm}
Blah blah blah
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{145mm}
\lipsum[7-11]
\end{minipage}%
\end{document}

However, the first minipage is not aligned in the absolute top left, but a little bit to the right, so that the rightmost minipage ends up in the bleed area:

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As you can see I already removed extra spaces inbetween as suggested here, but that didn't resolve the issue. I also already set the margins to 0 with geometry.

How can I align the minipage in the absolute top?

Best Answer

Since you're doing a cover page, it's better to set

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

before \begin{document}. Note that \parindent is set to zero inside a minipage anyway, but this doesn't affect normal paragraphing.

As far as TeX is concerned, you're just making a paragraph and a minipage is nothing more than a “big” character to TeX's eyes.

Or just add \noindent before the starting \begin{minipage}.

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        % us  hmargin=3cm to make horizontal margins equal to 3cm.
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[Tex/LaTex] Left margin minipage two figures

You can use a box and trick latex to think that the box has zero width and then center it:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{showframe} %% just to show frames.

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\makebox[0pt][c]{%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\linewidth}
\centering
  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{example-image-a}
  \caption[VaR assuming normal distribution, Allianz]{VaR assuming normal distribution, Allianz}
\label{sva}
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{0.5cm}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\linewidth}
\centering
 \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{example-image-b}
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\label{svb}
\end{minipage}%
}%
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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This can also be done with adjustbox package.

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