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- From: charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois)
- Subject: Margins - Width in LaTeX?
- Message-ID: <charro.727601953@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Summary: Problems setting width of text properly in LaTeX.
- Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:39:13 GMT
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- I've been having problems getting the margins right in my LaTeX
- documents. I do the following:
- \textwidth 6.5 in
- \textheight 8.9 in
- \hsize 6.5 in
- \vsize 8.9 in
- because not using the vsize/hsize doesn't seem to do anything even
- though they are TeX commands. I've been told that \text---- is
- supposed to change the margins, but when I look at my DVI file, no
- matter what values I give \text----, it doesn't change anything but
- the page size.
- Also, using all four commands causes the page number on page 1 to be
- moved about 1 inch up the page but none of the other pages are
- affected.
-
- I'd appreciate any help...
- Thanks,
-
- Mike (I'm using a friend's account...)
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