From comp.text.tex (1996): Eric Fruits ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (comp.text.tex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: : I have letterhead with all the important info (logo, etc.) on the left : margin, instead of the top or bottom of the page. Consequently, I'd : like to hack the letter class in some way so that it has a 2 inch left : margin on the first page and a normal margin on subsequent pages. David Carlisle answers: > TeX breaks paragraphs into lines *before* trying to break pages there is > no interaction between these two processes (which is probably the > biggest weakness in TeX's design). So the lines in a paragraph that > spans between the first and second pages will be set to > the conditions of the first page (or the second, but not both). > > If you know for some class of documents that the page break will > happen between paragraphs then you are in much better shape. > > If you really need the paragraph shape to change depending on the > page break you have to do a multi-pass system, where the pagebreak > determined on one run is saved (somehow) in the aux file and then a > suitable \parshape is used on the second run that changes the line > width in the paragraph after the number of lines specified on the > first run. If you only want to do this for the first page, it might > even work.
So, food for thought (but no answer, yet, to your question). I also posted your question at www.koma-script.de... -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
