From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:33:12 GMT

jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:

>Hey folks, help me out.  A fellow on GEnie posted the following question,
>and I don't have a copy of the TeXbook.  I seem to recall a couple
>variables called \hoffset and \voffset.  Am I right?  Here's the post:

>Amiga RoundTable
>Category 5,  Topic 39
>Message 29        Mon Jul 20, 1992
>E.LADNER1 [Eric]             at 20:07 EDT
> 
>  I have another question about LaTeX.  
>  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).
>  If anyone has any insight into this problem, I would really a appreciate
>it.....

Here's an article posted to comp.text.tex about page layout by
harryf@vax.oxford.ac.uk.  NOTE: TUGBoat is the TeX Users Group
journal.

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                    Page Layout in LaTeX
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Some time ago I responded _directly_ to Paul Richards, rather than the
newsgroup, about his question.  He has not sent a Summary to the newsgroup, and
I believe that this message is sufficiently useful on its own.

   spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) asks:

>Is there any way to change the page layout of LaTeX in articles and
>reports. It seems to leave a lot of space above and below the page and
>I'd prefer smaller margins i.e. I want more text on my page and less
>space.
>
>I tried to find something like marginsize in the manual but the only
>things you seem to be able to control are marginal notes.
>
>What size paper is LaTeX designed for. It occured to me that since I'm
>printing on A4 and LaTeX was designed in the US that maybe it thinks the
>pages are a different size. If this is the case, what do I do.
>

See the article entitled `Page Layout in LaTeX', by Kent McPherson, in TUGboat,
Volume 9(1988), No 1. pp 78-82.  This is the single most useful article that I
have seen.

You can change all the parameters that you need to.  Please remember that you
can use _negative_ values --- this can be very useful with `\voffset', to move
everything up the page.  The parameters, with the values appropriate to article
style in 10pt, that you should consider are :

1  \hoffset = 0pt       \
2  \voffset = 0pt        \
3  \oddsidemargin = 63pt  \
4  \topmargin = 27pt       \
5  \headheight = 12pt       \
6  \headsep = 25pt           \    See the diagram below
7  \textheight = 528pt       /    Taken from Kent McPherson's paper
8  \textwidth = 345pt       /
9  \marginparsep = 11pt    /
10 \marginparwidth = 90pt /
11 \footskip = 30pt      /
12 \footheight = 12pt   /

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