Latex template or example for personal application.

Question

I write a personal expression in latex. I do not want the large margin at the top of the page to be small, taking up a lot of space. I just wanted to make the layout compact, but still clearly spaced with a heading, name and other necessary information, as there may be a limit on the number of pages. For example, http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/CIM/Documents/PS-Sample2_000.pdf . I wonder where to find good latex templates or examples?

Thank you and welcome!

Answer 1

geometry package, . , :

\usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}

. LaTeX \@maketitle . , . , , :

\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}% provides colors for text
\makeatletter% since there an at-sign (@) in the command name
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \begin{center}
    \parskip\baselineskip% skip a line between paragraphs in the title block
    \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block
    \textcolor{red}{\bf\@title}\par
    \textbf{\@author}\par
    %\@date% remove the percent sign at the beginning of this line if you want the date printed
  \end{center}
}
\makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)

\@title, \@author \@date , . , , , ..

. - \documentclass \begin{document}.

\documentclass{article}

% this is the preamble
% put all of the above code in here

\title{Personal Statement}
\author{Tim}

\begin{document}

\maketitle% prints the title block

Emergency medicine has always been a passion of mine\ldots

\end{document}

Answer 2

# 1: , cramp2e, . , , , :

\oddsidemargin -1cm 
\evensidemargin -2cm 
\topmargin 1cm    
\textheight 24cm
\textwidth 19cm
\headheight 0cm
\headsep .7cm
\footskip .7cm
\parskip .2cm
\paperheight 25cm
\setlength\voffset{-.33in}
\setlength\hoffset{-.25in}

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Postscript A4.

Answer 3

A slightly smaller LaTeX-ey solution would be to not use the \ maketitle command. A couple of times I just used this as my headline (margin also helps).

Set up smaller fields:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{anysize}
\marginsize{1cm}{1cm}{1cm}{1cm}

(EDIT: 1 cm might be even better ..) Minimum name:

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\section*{My Document Title}
\today
\end{center}

% content goes here

\end{document}

The result looks something like this: