Text Formatting ⇒ Making a document, LaTeXed for a5paper, look like a4

[JonTsu]

I'm trying to LaTeX my lecture notes for a kindle and so I've started ny preamble with \documentclass[a5paper]{article}

However, I find that this makes my document look very juvenile (as the text is so large in relation to the page). Is there any way of reducing the text size to the point that it looks as if it had been LaTeXed using \documentclass[a4paper]{article} and then reduced to a5?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi JonTsu,

welcome to the board!

You could use scrartcl instead of article. scrartcl can bee seen as extended article class, it belongs to the very recommendable KOMA-Script bundle. It allows arbitrary base font sizes given in any TeX dimension. For example:

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\documentclass[paper=a5,fontsize=8pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

Alternatively you could use extarticle.

Stefan

[JonTsu]

Thanks so much Stefan, that's very, very helpful!
Jon.