[Tex/LaTex] Make text block wider in A4 page

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I'm struggling to fit a wider text into an A4 page. This page isn't going to be printed as a book, it is simply for internal use, so I don't mind if the text occupies more % of the page. I've tried different commands, to various effects, but nothing would change the width of the text stripe. The best I could get was to shift the entire block of text in either direction…

These are the commands I've tried:

\setlength{\textwidth}{500pt}
\hspace{-32pt}
%% \textwidth=490pt
%% \marginparwidth=-12pt
%% \marginparsep=-12pt
%% \marginparpush=-12pt
%% \oddsidemargin=-12pt
%% \hoffset=-12pt

and variations. The template used is \documentclass[a4paper]{article}

Sorry, the choice of tags is somewhat arbitrary – I don't really know where my problem belongs. Feel free to change it.

Best Answer

Did you try package a4wide:

\usepackage{a4wide}

For a similar problem I used

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[top=30pt,bottom=30pt,left=48pt,right=46pt]{geometry}

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[Tex/LaTex] Change \textwidth after first page in scrlttr2

Here is now a working example. It still requires a manual \pagebreak in the main text of the letter, but according to explanations by @DavidCarlisle, see above, this is at good as it can get without resorting to more powerful systems like luatex.

\documentclass{scrlttr2}%
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum,afterpage}%
\setlength{\textwidth}{125mm}%
\firstfoot{%
  \afterpage{%
    \global\setlength{\textwidth}{17cm}%
    \global\setlength{\columnwidth}{\textwidth}%
    \global\setlength{\hsize}{\columnwidth}%
    \global\setlength{\linewidth}{\hsize}}%
}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{Receipient}
  \opening{Dear receipient,}
  \lipsum[1-2]
  \pagebreak % enfore the page break, otherwise afterpage will take
  % effect too late, i.e. after first broken paragraph on page 2.
  \lipsum[3-12]
  \closing{Yours}
\end{letter}
\end{document}

In this example the text body on the first page has a width of 12.5cm and on of 17cm on all following pages. If you want this to work in documents containing multiple letters, you should reset \textwidth on every "first page," e.g. using

\firsthead{%
    \global\setlength{\textwidth}{12.5cm}%
    \global\setlength{\columnwidth}{\textwidth}%
    \global\setlength{\hsize}{\columnwidth}%
    \global\setlength{\linewidth}{\hsize}%
}

in the preamble.

[Tex/LaTex] Top margin, memoir class and geometry package

You suffer from a combination of factors.

\begin{minipage}[t][\textheight] creates a box that's slightly bigger than \textheight
You have a non zero \parindent
You have a non zero \fboxsep (this is used by \colorbox)

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,extrafontsizes,twoside]{memoir}

\usepackage{xkeyval,calc,etex,etoolbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[pagecolor={none}]{pagecolor}
\usepackage{ifthen,ifpdf,ifxetex}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenx}
\usepackage{newunicodechar,adjustbox}

%\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}{*}% 
%\settrims{0pt}{0pt}
%\setulmargins{0pt}{*}{*}
%\checkandfixthelayout

\usepackage[margin=0pt]{geometry}

\pagecolor{blue}
\pagestyle{empty}
\newlength{\spinelen}
\setlength{\spinelen}{\paperwidth * 1/8}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}

\hspace*{\spinelen}%
\colorbox{white}{%
  \vbox to\textheight{
    \hsize=\dimexpr\linewidth-\spinelen\relax
    \leftskip=6pt %%% some padding

    \vspace*{\stretch{1}}

    {\color{blue}\fontsize{36pt}{40pt}\selectfont Title\par}

    \vspace{\baselineskip}

    {\color{blue}\fontsize{25pt}{28pt}\selectfont Subtitle\par}

    \vspace*{\stretch{5}}

    \Large Author1

    Author2

    \vspace{2\baselineskip}

    \vspace*{\stretch{2}}
  }% end \vbox
}% end \colorbox

\endgroup

\clearpage


\ifxetex\pagecolor{white}\else\nopagecolor\fi

\end{document}

Setting \parindent to zero avoids having to specify \noindent in the box. Some inner padding can be obtained by setting \leftskip.

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