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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 12:24:38 -0400
From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
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To: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
Cc: tex-eplain@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: setting margins and \magnification
In your margin setting macros you use relative and not absolute
dimensions. Thus, if I say something like
The margin macros are supposed to be absolute. \paperwidth and
\paperheight have to be defined correctly, though. And of course if
you yourself have assigned to \hoffset, that will change things
accordingly.
All the \leftmargin macro does is:
\hoffset = \dimen@ \advance\hoffset by -1in
\advance\dimen2 by -\hoffset % Compute the change in \hoffset.
\advance\hsize by \dimen2 % Change type area accordingly.
(Recall that the default margins in TeX are 1in and 1in; an \hoffset of
0 corresponds to a left margin of one inch.)
However, I'm not sure what effect the `true' will have.
I've never really understood `true', to tell you the truth.