How do I set the margins in a KOMA-Script class?

Question

I am writing my resume (using the currvita package) within a scrartcl document class from KOMA-Script. How do I set the margins? I think the text width is a bit too narrow for me.

Answer 1

You may also want to redefine the areaset \areaset[5mm]{412pt}{657pt} but it may destroy the original behavior of the class.

Answer 2

As TH. has hinted, chapter 2 of the KOMA-script documentation deals with page layouts. The most important class option is DIV (the division factor for box construction), with a default value of 10 (appropriate for a font size of 11pt). If the text width is "a bit too narrow" for you, try

\documentclass[DIV=12]{scrartcl}