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- From: mpue2@syma.sussex.ac.uk (James E. Talbut)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
- Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.081013.27980@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:10:13 GMT
- References: <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul22.203928.9588@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Jul22.203928.9588@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS) writes:
- >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).
- > Unfortunately, my TeXbook isn't handy, but I think you need to
- >do something like \hoffset=0in \voffset=0in .
- >
- Close, but no cigar, (of course, I'm gonna look a right idiot if my
- memory isn't too god!)
- The offsets in LaTeX are additional to the default offsets.
- So, in LaTeX, what I do is \topmargin -1in and \oddsidemargin -1in and
- \evensidemargin -1in, all in the preamble.
- That will give you NO magins at all (probably NOT what you want but I'm
- sure you can add what you do want to -1)
-
- It's just occurred to me that the \hoffset=0in might work, as it would
- use TeX and not LaTeX, but I still don't think it does (apologies to
- Andrew if it does :-).
-
- J.T.
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- James Talbut mpue2@syma.susx.ac.uk
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