How to Remove All Whitespace around text?

Question

I would like to remove all spacing around text. Vertical and horizontal. I have solved this problem before but I cannot find the source. I want to read the document on my phone's screen which is small and I need all space there.

Stub start

\documentclass{article}

%%% I need to have these things in the body. 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % for pipe symbol
%% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40748/use-sections-inline
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{%
  \@startsection{section}{1}{-1.5em}%
                            {1ex \@plus1ex \@minus.2ex}%
                            {0em}%
                            {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{subsection}}

\begin{document}

\section{}What is the difference between | this | and | lorem | plaa.

\section{}What is the difference between | this | and | lorem | plaa.

\section{}What is the difference between | this | and | lorem | plaa.

\end{document}

How can you remove all Spacing around text?

Reading a pdf on a small screen is .... Better use some ebook-format.. — Johannes_B, May 25 '16 at 08:36
@Johannes_B I cannot understand what benefits the ebook would bring. You need to use Pandoc. Removing margins here seem to work fine. — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, May 25 '16 at 12:12
@Masi Changes the category code of the space character to invalid making TeX ignore all the spaces. This answers the part of your question where you say: »I would like to remove all spacing around text.« — Henri Menke, May 25 '16 at 12:52
@HenriMenke I think your answer is more general than just simply setting margin zero in the geometry package. — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, May 25 '16 at 13:08
You want to read on your tablet, have presentations with videos, want to make LaTeX ignore comments (so that they are no longer comments). You want to do a lot of stuff, and i think you should not use LaTeX for most of it. Your ideas and thoughts can be put down in simple text, but you need different ways to get the output you want. But this is my personal way of thinking. — Johannes_B, May 25 '16 at 16:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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_{An answer to the first version of the question.}

Class `standalone`

\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}

lorem ipsum

\end{document}

Full page:

Settings the margins to zero

\usepackage[margin=0pt]{geometry}

Cropping the PDF file

Or the PDF file can be post-processed with pdfcrop to remove the outer margins.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered May 21 '16 at 12:45

Heiko Oberdiek

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@Masi Very unclear. Except for the different font encoding, the body of the document of the question does not use any of the things added to the preamble. – Heiko Oberdiek May 21 '16 at 12:50

How to Remove All Whitespace around text?

1 Answers1

Class standalone

Settings the margins to zero

Cropping the PDF file

Class `standalone`