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Title: \LaTeX question
Post by: zahc on February 25, 2013, 10:12:20 PM

I like \LaTeX. I especially like the qtree package right now, for making cool dependency plots.

The problem is, my tree data structures can be arbitrarily large. This is a problem because the plots run off the paper. The only solution I can think of is to have a 'large' paper size. The largest I have found is \documentclass{a0poster} which fits SOME of my plots. But then the smaller plots contain a lot of 'negative space'.

I think what I really want is NO paper size. I want \LaTeX to render my plot in cyberspace apart from any idea of paper size. Is it possible to do this?

Title: Re: \LaTeX question
Post by: cosine on February 25, 2013, 10:20:47 PM

Can't you use the geometry package to set arbitrary paper sizes?

Title: Re: \LaTeX question
Post by: GigaBuist on February 25, 2013, 10:23:28 PM

I've only had minimal exposure to LaTex and TeX, but enough to know what you're getting at.

Like cosine said, a custom paper size seems to be the thing.  The geometry package would be one way.  This also would seem to work:  http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80505/how-to-make-document-custom-page-dimensions

Just give it very large paper dimensions.