Aligning a minipage in the absolute top left

Question

I'm formatting a cover design in LaTeX. The cover has pages of 145×210mm which includes 3mm margin. The side should be 13.93mm wide and the bleed is 3mm. This gives me the following code, which declares three minipages: one for the back of the book, one for the side, and one for the front.

\documentclass[paper=303.93mm:210mm,10pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[margin=0pt]{geometry}
\usepackage[center,cross,width=309.93mm,height=216mm]{crop}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}%
\begin{minipage}{145mm}
\lipsum[0-5]
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{13.93mm}
Blah blah blah
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{145mm}
\lipsum[7-11]
\end{minipage}%
\end{document}

However, the first minipage is not aligned in the absolute top left, but a little bit to the right, so that the rightmost minipage ends up in the bleed area:

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As you can see I already removed extra spaces inbetween as suggested here, but that didn't resolve the issue. I also already set the margins to 0 with geometry.

How can I align the minipage in the absolute top?

@egreg right, of course. I didn't think of it, that it would apply to minipages as well, but of course it does. Thanks! — Keelan, Feb 01 '15 at 16:25

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '15 at 16:28

Since you're doing a cover page, it's better to set

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

before \begin{document}. Note that \parindent is set to zero inside a minipage anyway, but this doesn't affect normal paragraphing.

As far as TeX is concerned, you're just making a paragraph and a minipage is nothing more than a “big” character to TeX's eyes.

Or just add \noindent before the starting \begin{minipage}.

Aligning a minipage in the absolute top left

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