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dl3fo3
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document class for screen display: (small margin, big font)

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Is there a reliable document class suited for viewing your drafts on screen display as opposed to printing it on physical papers? I think a document class with small margins or no margins and big fonts would be good for screen reading.


Background:

I'm doing the following cycle when I am writing my LaTeX document:

... --> compile --> view --> edit --> compile --> view --> edit --> ...

In the 'view' step, I find that the fonts in the viewer (in all kinds of dvi or pdf viewers) are a bit blurry and texts are small and that makes it not so good to read the text, especially subscripts and superscripts. So I have to zoom in sometimes and even when I don't have to zoom, it's poor experience reading small blurry text. or maybe I need to buy a bigger monitor.

So I tried to make my draft to have small margins because the usual generous size of margins (of article and amsart class) are waste of screen space and also to have big fonts so that the new document has about the same number of letters per line as the old document with usual font size and usual margin size would.

This is what I tried:

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\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\Large

Blah blah blah blah ...

\end{document}
The produced dvi document looked fine as I intended in XDVI, but didn't look fine in the ActiveDVI (which I use with whizzytex).

So I'm wondering if there is a document class. I suspect someone has done a better job than my trick and made it a document class and if I use it, both the produced pdf and dvi would look fine in all viewers.

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document class for screen display: (small margin, big font)

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dl3fo3 wrote:[...] In the 'view' step, I find that the fonts in the viewer (in all kinds of dvi or pdf viewers) are a bit blurry and texts are small and that makes it not so good to read the text, especially subscripts and superscripts. So I have to zoom in sometimes and even when I don't have to zoom, it's poor experience reading small blurry text. or maybe I need to buy a bigger monitor. [...]
Use T1-Encoding (Cork Encoding) in combination with suitable postscript fonts to improve the output quality of documents. Perhaps the LaTeX Font Catalogue has some inspiration for you.


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