[Tex/LaTex] Widen page and margin while keeping other geometry settings

geometrymarginstodonotes

I repeatedly find myself in this situation:

I write a paper with some publisher-specified layout (e.g. acmart, IEEEtran).
I and my coauthors use todonotes to add notes to the margin while we draft the paper.
The margins of those layouts are far too small.

What I then do is to manually recreate the publisher’s layout, but add a few centimeters to the paperwidth and the same amount to the marginwidth. This way,I have more space for the todonotes without affecting the layout of the actual content.

But it is annoying having to figure out the original dimensions first. Is there a some code that would effect these changes relative to the current page geometry?

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This seems to work:

\paperwidth=\dimexpr \paperwidth + 6cm\relax
\oddsidemargin=\dimexpr\oddsidemargin + 3cm\relax
\evensidemargin=\dimexpr\evensidemargin + 3cm\relax
\marginparwidth=\dimexpr \marginparwidth + 3cm\relax

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[Tex/LaTex] Geometry settings for default document layout

You can compile your document with \usepackage[pass]{geometry}, which will write in the .log file a transcript; here's the result (with A4 paper):

*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: dvips
*geometry* verbose mode - [ preamble ] result:
* pass: disregarded the geometry package!
* \paperwidth=597.50787pt
* \paperheight=845.04684pt
* \textwidth=345.0pt
* \textheight=598.0pt
* \oddsidemargin=53.0pt
* \evensidemargin=54.0pt
* \topmargin=17.0pt
* \headheight=12.0pt
* \headsep=25.0pt
* \topskip=10.0pt
* \footskip=30.0pt
* \marginparwidth=57.0pt
* \marginparsep=11.0pt
* \columnsep=10.0pt
* \skip\footins=9.0pt plus 4.0pt minus 2.0pt
* \hoffset=0.0pt
* \voffset=0.0pt
* \mag=1000
* \@twocolumnfalse
* \@twosidefalse
* \@mparswitchfalse
* \@reversemarginfalse
* (1in=72.27pt=25.4mm, 1cm=28.453pt)

Since we are in a oneside context, all that should be needed is

\geometry{a4paper,textwidth=345pt,textheight=598pt}

But you can always check against the old transcript.

[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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