simple pdflatex article

A minimal template for simple documents to be compiled with pdflatex.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fourier}                % use utopia as the main font
\usepackage{xspace}                 % handle spacing at the end of macros you define
\usepackage[
    height=8in                      % Set the page height to 8 inches.
    width=5in                       % Set the page width to 5 inches.
]{geometry}                         % set the page layout parameters

\begin{document}

\end{document}