Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I guess \textheight is the only sensible one.
Why shouldn't someone find \textwidth sensible? E.g., if he wants produce a blank square (for whatever reason). But textheight is certainly the most important one. > You should be careful > though about the screen representation of such a length. I think that screen representation will be just o.k. as is. We'd just need to delete the deletion of %-units in the frontends. Jürgen