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I have a problem with drawing a line across the page (from margin to margin). I had to change default margins for title page (only for this page) and to do that I used changepage package.

\thispagestyle{empty} \begin{adjustwidth}{-1cm}{-1cm} ... ... ... \end{adjustwidth}

Everything looks great however lines which I draw using 

\rule{\textwidth}{.1pt}

aren't drawn from margin to margin. The line starts at goo point however line clearly ends before text. How can I fix that ?

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Use \linewidth instead:

\rule{\linewidth}{.1pt}

To understand the difference, have a look at Difference between \textwidth, \linewidth and \hsize.

Example:

\documentclass{book} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{changepage} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{adjustwidth}{-1cm}{-1cm} \blindtext[2] \rule{\linewidth}{.1pt} \end{adjustwidth} \blindtext[2] \rule{\linewidth}{.1pt} \end{document}

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  • You beat me by 44 seconds. ;-) Commented Sep 2, 2011 at 15:33
  • @lockstep: just luck :-) so added some information, since there's the nice Q&A about the difference of those widths. Commented Sep 2, 2011 at 15:40

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