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  3. From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
  4. Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.233312.10014@trl.oz.au>
  6. Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
  7. Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
  8. Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
  9. References: <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:33:12 GMT
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  12.  
  13. jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Hey folks, help me out.  A fellow on GEnie posted the following question,
  16. >and I don't have a copy of the TeXbook.  I seem to recall a couple
  17. >variables called \hoffset and \voffset.  Am I right?  Here's the post:
  18.  
  19. >Amiga RoundTable
  20. >Category 5,  Topic 39
  21. >Message 29        Mon Jul 20, 1992
  22. >E.LADNER1 [Eric]             at 20:07 EDT
  23. > 
  24. >  I have another question about LaTeX.  
  25. >  It seems like you can't override the margins set up by the \documentstyle
  26. >command.  I have tryed everything to get it to change but it always shoves it
  27. >down and over by about an inch (even in the  ShowDVI program, with the margin
  28. >lines on, it don't match).
  29. >  If anyone has any insight into this problem, I would really a appreciate
  30. >it.....
  31.  
  32. Here's an article posted to comp.text.tex about page layout by
  33. harryf@vax.oxford.ac.uk.  NOTE: TUGBoat is the TeX Users Group
  34. journal.
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  38.                     Page Layout in LaTeX
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  40.  
  41. Some time ago I responded _directly_ to Paul Richards, rather than the
  42. newsgroup, about his question.  He has not sent a Summary to the newsgroup, and
  43. I believe that this message is sufficiently useful on its own.
  44.  
  45.    spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) asks:
  46.  
  47. >Is there any way to change the page layout of LaTeX in articles and
  48. >reports. It seems to leave a lot of space above and below the page and
  49. >I'd prefer smaller margins i.e. I want more text on my page and less
  50. >space.
  51. >
  52. >I tried to find something like marginsize in the manual but the only
  53. >things you seem to be able to control are marginal notes.
  54. >
  55. >What size paper is LaTeX designed for. It occured to me that since I'm
  56. >printing on A4 and LaTeX was designed in the US that maybe it thinks the
  57. >pages are a different size. If this is the case, what do I do.
  58. >
  59.  
  60. See the article entitled `Page Layout in LaTeX', by Kent McPherson, in TUGboat,
  61. Volume 9(1988), No 1. pp 78-82.  This is the single most useful article that I
  62. have seen.
  63.  
  64. You can change all the parameters that you need to.  Please remember that you
  65. can use _negative_ values --- this can be very useful with `\voffset', to move
  66. everything up the page.  The parameters, with the values appropriate to article
  67. style in 10pt, that you should consider are :
  68.  
  69. 1  \hoffset = 0pt       \
  70. 2  \voffset = 0pt        \
  71. 3  \oddsidemargin = 63pt  \
  72. 4  \topmargin = 27pt       \
  73. 5  \headheight = 12pt       \
  74. 6  \headsep = 25pt           \    See the diagram below
  75. 7  \textheight = 528pt       /    Taken from Kent McPherson's paper
  76. 8  \textwidth = 345pt       /
  77. 9  \marginparsep = 11pt    /
  78. 10 \marginparwidth = 90pt /
  79. 11 \footskip = 30pt      /
  80. 12 \footheight = 12pt   /
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  151. Harry Fearnley, Dept of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK 
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  159.  
  160.  
  161. Soh, Kam Hung, Network Management Research,     |  h.soh@trl.oz.au  
  162. TRL, POB 249 Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia  |  +61 3 253 6638
  163.