Page Layout ⇒ scrlttr2: how to tighten the margins of a letter

[renato07]

Hi,
I'm using scrlttr2 class, to create my letterhead.
I've done 90% of work (header with my logo, footer with information), but I find the letter too wide.
I think I can tighten the margin (to obtain a 66 character per line, as latex racomandation sudgest) setting somethings on the documentclass parameter, but I don't know wich one.
Or, maybe, I had to do somethings else.

I include my list. So everyone can see what I mean

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   \documentclass[paper=a4, backaddress=false, headlines=0, headinclude=true]{scrlttr2}

    \usepackage[italian]{babel}
    \usepackage{tabularx}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    
    %-------------setting koma variable
    \setkomavar{fromname}{Renato}
    \setkomavar{fromaddress}{ Via delle Redini\\Ort}
    \setkomavar{fromphone}{90}
    \newkomavar[Mobil: ]{frommobil}
    \setkomavar{frommobil}{97}
    \setkomavar{fromemail}{ma}
    \setkomavar{signature}{Musterschüler}
    \setkomavar*{fromphone}{Tel. }
 %\@setplength{fromrulethickness}{1pt}% change the thickness, default is 0.4pt   
%\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
%\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
    %---------------intestazione--------------
    \setkomavar{firsthead}{\includegraphics[]{logo2.eps}
%    \usekomavar{fromname} \textbullet\ \usekomavar{fromaddress} \\ \usekomavar{fromphone}
}
%----------------intestazione seconda pagina----------------
%    \setkomavar{nexthead}{\usekomavar{fromname} \textbullet\ \usekomavar{fromaddress} \\ \usekomavar{fromphone} }

%-------------------piè di pagina ------------------
\setkomavar {firstfoot}{\tiny
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|X|}
\textbf{sede Legale}&\textbf{sede Amministrativa}&\textbf {tel.} 0xx5 38 28 34 - \textbf{fax } 0xx5 98 38 78\\
Via xxbriele  &Via xxasimeno xxes&\\
xxx27 xxx&xxx xxo xxgia&xxx@gmail.com\\
\end{tabularx}}

%}   % closing bracket
\LoadLetterOption{SN} %---------posiziona indirizzo a sinistra----------
    \begin{document}
    \pagestyle{headings}
    \begin{letter}{Name \\ adress \\ Zip,  Town}
    \opening{Hi...,}

    \lipsum

    \closing{Yours truly,}
    \end{letter}
    \end{document}

I hope you can help me.

TIA

Renato

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

as part of KOMA-script, package typearea takes care of the text block. That means everthing explained in chapter 2 of the KOMA documentation applies. You can play around with the DIV-value to change the margins (and hence the textblock) or use package geometry to define the left and right margins completely by hand.


btw: scrlttr2 provides the variable frommobilephone which is preset to say Telefonino en italiano

[renato07]

Hi Joanes,
I've read the manual, where you told me .
And the body of the letter is ok, just using DIV (documentclass[a4paper,DIV=10]{scrlttr2})

But header and footer still range from left to right of the page.
Is there a way to add (a kind of) DIV=10 in header and footer?

Renato

[Johannes_B]

This is in the advanced section for scrlttr2, if i remember correctly. You have to adjust the pseudolength. Header and footer are not controlled by stuff of typearea or geometry.

There is a reason for that, prevent the author from doing strange stuff. If you change the position of the adresse field for example, the letter will not be correctly aligned within a windowed envelope. If you really want to do that, please refer to scrlttr2 location positioning question.