A traditional book is a set of pages; LaTeX, too, follows this tradition. However, today, e-book reading mediums such as the Kindle, iPad, tablets, and even smartphones, are popular for browsing the Internet and for reading documents.
In this recipe, we will see how to make a document e-reader-friendly.
Set up a preamble for a document that can be read on an electronic device such as a tablet reader, by performing the following steps:
Choose a suitable document class. Choose small headings and a small interparagraph skip instead of paragraph indentation. The latter costs too much space on an already narrow display:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,headings=small, parskip=half]{scrreprt}Set a small paper size that matches a common screen ratio and choose a very small margin:
\usepackage[papersize={3.6in,4.8in},margin=0.2in]{geometry}Choose a font that is easily readable on screen, especially with a low screen resolution; a sans-serif font may...