When you create a new document in Microsoft Word, you get a standard blank document with the right margins. Moreover when that document is exported to PDF, you are satisfied with the layout.
Over and over I have tried to get the best out of LaTeX, to make it standard looking but I have failed. Using fullpage
or geometry
packages with custom sizes doesn't give best results.
What settings would you use if you were to mimic a Word portrait document in LaTeX ?
I'm not concerned with fonts, CM fonts are my favourite.
\usepackage[margin=1 in]{geometry}
gives Word-like margins pretty easily.\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0cm} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{.0cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{17cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{-1.50cm} \setlength{\textheight}{25cm} \setlength{\footskip}{0.8cm}
in the preamble and play around with the values whenever it feels personally right for you.