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- From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
- Message-ID: <KENTD.92Jul22144255@zappa.FtCollins.NCR.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:42:55 GMT
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- In-reply-to: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 19:18:00 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 21 Jul 92 19:18:00 GMT, jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) said:
-
- Jon> Hey folks, help me out. A fellow on GEnie posted the following question,
- Jon> and I don't have a copy of the TeXbook. I seem to recall a couple
- Jon> variables called \hoffset and \voffset. Am I right? Here's the post:
-
- Jon> I have another question about LaTeX. It seems like you can't
- Jon> override the margins set up by the \documentstyle command. I have
- Jon> tryed everything to get it to change but it always shoves it down
- Jon> and over by about an inch (even in the ShowDVI program, with the
- Jon> margin lines on, it don't match). If anyone has any insight into
- Jon> this problem, I would really a appreciate it.....
- Jon>
- Jon> Eric
-
- I don't know about PasTeX in particular, but in general you have
- complete control of margins in LaTeX using the following 4 keywords:
- \topmargin
- \leftmargin
- \rightmargin
- \textheight
-
- An example:
-
- %%% 8.5x11 paper with .5inch margins all around
- %%% If this doesn't work your LaTeX/DVItools are broken :^).
- %
- \setlength{\topmargin{0.5in}}
- \setlength{\leftmargin{0.5in}}
- \setlength{\rightmargin{0.5in}}
- \setlength{\textheight{10in}}
-
- See page 113 of "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" by Leslie Lamport
- for further information. If the original poster doesn't have it, tell
- him to buy it *immediately*. LaTeX is unusable without that book IMHO.
- (The publisher is Addison-Wesley and ISBN is: 0-201-15790-X)
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