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- From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
- Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.121033.13751@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
- Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:10:33 GMT
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- In article <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- >Hey folks, help me out. A fellow on GEnie posted the following question,
- >and I don't have a copy of the TeXbook. I seem to recall a couple
- >variables called \hoffset and \voffset. Am I right? Here's the post:
- >
- >Amiga RoundTable
- >Category 5, Topic 39
- >Message 29 Mon Jul 20, 1992
- >E.LADNER1 [Eric] at 20:07 EDT
- >
- > I have another question about LaTeX.
- > 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).
- > If anyone has any insight into this problem, I would really a appreciate
- >it.....
-
- TeX don't use any offsets. TeX sets a (0,0) point at the left top border
- and you can set your letters at any point. E.g. the headline is over
- the top border e.g. (x, y) , y<0.
-
- The drivers are responsible for using such offsets for the (0, 0) point,
- so that all text are shown.
-
- The default offset, which nearly all drivers are using is 1 inch left and
- 1 inch above. So all text which is more than one inch above the
- (0, 0) point, will be not printed.
-
- But the PasTeX drivers does have the ability, to change the offsets.
- Try the keywords 'hoff' and 'voff'.
-
- Georg.
-
-
- PS: Can someone send me a *real* english version of my posting? :-)
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