File:Latex layout.svg

diagram showing the layout of each page for LaTeX. I created in the following way. First I downloaded layout.pdf, that contains a similar diagram in the second page.

Another possible way to get the same (??) diagram could be creating a latex file called test.tex with the code:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage{layout}

\begin{document}

\layout

\end{document}

compile it with pdflatex:

pdflatex test.tex

I don't know why, I got a sightly different output. Anyway, I have used the original layout.pdf from the link above. Once you have your PDF, you can continue. Convert it into PS:

pdf2ps test.pdf

then I converted it to SVG with my ps2svg.sh script:

ps2svg.sh test.ps

I got an SVG version without any text. I heavily post-processed it with Inkscape and there it is. I didn't insert any text, just numbers, so that the caption can be added wherever wanted using wiki-text. I previewed it with rsvg (the same program Wikimedia uses), and it looks perfect, while here the fonts don't look well aligned and are a bit overlapping with the rest. I guess it is because my rsvg is more updated than Mediawiki's, so I think the picture will look better in the future (next time Wikimedia is updated).

17 January 2007(2007-01-17)

the layout.sty LaTeX package, heavily post-processed by myself

Alessio Damato

see below