What are hscale
and vscale
?
How can I use them?
If I use geometry
package like the code below, what will happen to the total body
?
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{hscale = 0.6, vscale = 0.5}
I didn't understand the use even after reading the user manual
page number = 6, 7.
Best Answer
Barring some technical details, using
is effectively similar to
thereby scaling the "total body" with respect to the stock/paper size. Technically, the "total body" could include the space around the text block, which includes the margin space (horizontally), header and footer (vertically), so the above is a small simplification.
Compiling the following minimal example, removing the appropriate comment, you'll notice the same look output by
geometry
:The image on the left contains the
hscale
andvscale
options, while the image on the right contains the equivalenttotalwidth
andtotalheight
settings:There are many equivalences between options that can be specified. For example,
noheadfoot
is equivalent to specifying bothnohead
andnofoot
. These equivalences are usually meant to provide abbreviated package options (that combine other, more specific, choices) and promote ease-of-use.