Leaflet Manual
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Changes over version 0.3
The present release of the leaflet class differs basically from
its predecessor, version 0.3, which had been developed
originally by Jürgen Schlegelmilch.
The main change is, that no more post-processing is re-
quired to arrange the pages on the sheet. Furthermore, the
overall layout has been changed slightly to suit the small
page size better. In general, documents that were written
for version 0.3 will exhibit different line and page breaks
when typeset using the new version of this document class.
References
[1] L. LAMPORT: L
A
T
EX. A Document Preparation Sys-
tem. User’s Guide And Reference Manual. Second
Edition. 1994.
[2] M. SCHRÖDER: The everyshi package. 2001.
CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ms/everyshi.
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The document class leaflet
Rolf Niepraschk
Walter Schmidt
Hubert Gäßlein
Last updated 2012/06/04
printed June 19, 2017
Overview
The document class leaflet creates a document of (up to) six
small pages in portrait orientation, arranged physically on
two “normal-size” pages. The target page sizes supported
by the standard L
A
T
EXarticle are available, plus a3paper.
Printing these to both sides of a sheet and folding appropri-
ately will yield a six-page leaflet.
Requirements
Using the leaflet class requires that the final document is
created in PostScript or PDF format, using
• T
EX and dvips, or
• pdfT
EX, or
• VT
EX in PS or PDF mode.
(Some other drivers supported by standard L
A
T
EX work as
well.)
The non-standard macro package everyshi [2] is used by the
leaflet class.
Features
Basically the leaflet class provides the same features as the
standard article class. There are, however, a number of dif-
ferences and restrictions, as well as some additional facili-
ties and peculiarities:
BACKGROUND
• The sectioning level \part is not available. The other
sectioning levels are not numbered by default.
• References to the page where floating objects are lo-
cated may come out wrong (this includes \pageref as
well as \listof... commends).
• Section headers are typeset in a smaller font size than
in the standard classes.
• You may use list-like environments just as in the stan-
dard classes. The left margins have been adjusted to
work well with the a4paper and letterpaper class
options. With other target page sizes, you’ll have to ad-
just them.
Here’s a small demo:
Uncle Meat First entry in a description environment.
King Kong Second entry.
–First entry in an itemize environment.
1. First entry in an enumerate environment.
2. Second entry.
(a) First entry in an enumerate environment.
i. First entry in an enumerate environ-
ment.
ii. Second entry.
(b) Second entry.
*First entry in an itemize environ-
ment.
*Second entry.
(c) Another entry.
3. Another entry.
–Second entry.
–Another entry.
Frunobulax Another entry.
• Marginal notes are pointless on the given page size and
are disabled.
• Two-column typesetting is not supported for the same
reason.
• By default, there are no page headers, page footers or
page numbers, nor is there any space reserved for these.
However, you can restore them, if you like. To do
so, use \pagestyle as with the standard classes, and
\setlength to adjust the corresponding parameters
(like \headheight). At last, you have to call the new
macro
\setmargins{top}{bottom}{left}{right}.
• Paragraphs are separated by vertical space; the first line
of a paragraph is not indented by default.
• By default, all paragraphs are typeset as if you had spec-
ified \sloppy in the document preamble.
• A small folding mark is created between the second and
the third page.
• The macro \CutLine draws a vertical dotted line with
scissor symbols between the page indicated by its argu-
ment and the preceding one. The starred version omits
the scissors symbols.
• In case the text does not fit on six pages, a warning (or
error, depending on some class option, see below) will
be issued.
• To add some background picture to individual pages,
you can use \AddToBackground commands. Its first
argument specifies the page, the second one the picture
commands. The starred version puts the picture on the
combined pages.
Customization
The typeface to be used for the section headings is given
by the macro \sectfont, and the typeface to be used for
the labels of the description environment is given by
\descfont. Both macros default to \bfseries and can
be changed using \renewcommand*.
The horizontal and vertical and margins of the (small)
pages default to 8 mm and 11 mm, respectively, and can
be changed using \setmargins, as explained above. This
may be useful, if the printing engine exhibits larger unprint-
able margins.
The macros \foldmarkrule and \foldmarklength de-
termine the stroke width and the length of the fold mark,
which is printed between the second and the third page.
They default to 0.4 pt and 2 mm, respectively, and can be
changed using \renewcommand* (not \setlength!). See
also the class options foldmark and nofoldmark.
Class options
Default options are marked with an asterisk:
tumble*,notumble By default, the contents of the back
side of the final sheet is printed upside down. The op-
tion notumble suppresses that. Doing so may be nec-
essary to suit the behavior of certain printing engines.
Specifying [notumble] may also be useful during the
writing of a document, to enable proof-reading on the
screen.
frontside,backside,bothsides*These options con-
trol whether only the front page, the back page or both
pages of the final sheet are to be be created. Thus, you
can create separate files for the front an back side of the
sheet.
foldmark*,nofoldmark These options specifiy whether
or not a fold mark is to be printed.
combine*,nocombine These options specify whether the
(small) pages should be output combined on a
(large) target page (combine) or as individual pages
(nocombine).
At the same time, the determine behaviour in case
the text does not fit on six (small) pages. By default
(combine), an error is raised—and the surplus pages
will be gobbled. Otherwise (nocombine), just a warn-
ing will be issued; shortening the text appropriately is
left to the user.
twopart,notwopart*Allows the typesetting of a four
page leaflet (first part) and a two page detachable form
(second part), for fill-in forms, questionnaires, applica-
tions, etc.
Other options are passed to the article class.
