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- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
- Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
- References: <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.222135.4279@ms.uky.edu>
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:21:35 GMT
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- arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS) writes:
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- >jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- >> It seems like you can't override the margins set up by the \documentstyle
- >>command. I have tryed everything to get it to change but it always shoves it
- >>down and over by about an inch (even in the ShowDVI program, with the margin
- >>lines on, it don't match).
-
- >[It's a TeX thing, not a LaTeX thing]
- > Unfortunately, my TeXbook isn't handy, but I think you need to
- >do something like \hoffset=0in \voffset=0in .
-
- This shouldn't be necessary, and it isn't a good idea to change TeX
- settings behine LaTeX's back. LaTeX has \topmargin, \oddsidemargin, and
- \evensidemargin, all of which can be set to negative values if
- desired.
-
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