[Tex/LaTex] Change package margins within a section of the document

margins

I am using a style file that I found for a CV but I need to include the cover letter with the CV in a single file. So I am just putting the cover letter on the first page. The margins though are too small on the right hand side. So how can I override this and put more space on that side?

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It would be easier to make your CV and cover letter separate documents and use a PDF utility to combine them. The PDF utility could be LaTeX with the pdfpages package.

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It is normal that the outside margins are larger than the inside margins. However, KOMA-script/typearea supports the specification of a binding correction. That is, specifying how much space will be lost on the inside of the pages due to binding. The effect is that it shifts the text to the outside by that amount.

You specify the binding correction by passing the BCOR option to the documentclass: \documentclass[BCOR=3cm]{scrbook}. Alternatively, you can also add \KOMAoptions{BCOR=3cm}\recalctypearea to your preamble.

Edit: One way to switch margins is to add the following to your preamble:

\let\tmp\oddsidemargin
\let\oddsidemargin\evensidemargin
\let\evensidemargin\tmp
\reversemarginpar

This will exchange the margin sizes and print marginpars on the inside. I don't know whether that switching has any other unintended side-effects.

[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce the margins and spacings in this document

Two often used packages to tweak the margins of a page are anysize and geometry, and since geometry seems to have some conflicts with your document class, I would like to suggest the use of anysize as follows:

\usepackage{anysize}
\marginsize{left}{right}{top}{bottom}

As Wikipedia explains in more detail, you can also use things like \pagewidth, \paperwidth etc instead of \textwidth to make the sizes relative.

To add some (negative) space at random places in your document, you could use \vspace*{-<height>}, play with \addtolength, or look at Change whitespace above and below a section heading.

Finally, to get rid of the page number, try \pagestyle{empty}.

EDIT: You can use the package layout with the command \layout{} (preferably just below the \begin{document}) to check your dimensions - it will add an extra page with a detailed example page.

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