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I want to increase the (right) margin in the documentclass article about 0.5cm. How could I achieve this? I can use the package geometry but for that I must know the standard margin of this class.

Phelype Oleinik
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  • have a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44852/36296 – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 15 '18 at 13:10
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    Note that if you use the pass option for geometry, it will preserve the existing margins of the underlying class, while making the tools of the package available to you. But you will see in my answer that you don't even need geometry to globally change the right margin – Steven B. Segletes Aug 15 '18 at 13:14

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%\textwidth=\dimexpr\textwidth-.5cm\relax%  BRUTE syntax
%\advance\textwidth by -0.5cm%              TeX'ey syntax
\addtolength{\textwidth}{-0.5cm}%           LaTeX'ey syntax
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Syntax EDITED to reflect LaTeX (rather than BRUTE syntax), per suggestion of egreg.

Steven B. Segletes
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    The “TeX'ey syntax” would be \advance\textwidth by -0.5cm – egreg Aug 15 '18 at 14:35
  • @user372565 You are welcome. If you only need the change for part of a document, there is the \rightskip (and \leftskip) lengths that can accomplish this, though there can be side effects from this alternate approach. – Steven B. Segletes Aug 15 '18 at 16:35