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- From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
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- Subject: Re: Where is (1in, 1in) specified?
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- Date: 26 Jul 92 15:52:20 GMT
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- cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:
-
- >I once said I didn't want to read Volume B of the Computers
- >and Typesetting series (TeX: The Program), and that I was waiting
- >for the movie to come out. Well, I take it back. I have long
- >wondered why the reference point for DVI files, instead of being
- >at the upper left corner of the page, is 1 inch down and 1 inch
- >in from the corner. I finally resolved to go to the library and
- >check out the source and find out.
-
- > the standard convention for output on normal size paper is
- > to position each page so that the upper left-hand corner is
- > exactly one inch from the left and the top
-
- >It does not say (in that section at least) *why* this is the
- >convention, or what in the DVI file (if anything) specifies this,
- That is the recommendation you should adhere to if you write a DVI
- driver or viewer, simply because everybody else does it that way,
- because Knuth recommends it in order that everything looks the same.
-
- It has no compelling reason other that everybody else does it that way
- and that standard formats adhere to that convention.
-