On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:39 PM, François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 11/09/2014 22:33, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : >> Why do you change \hoffset and \voffset in LaTeX? It is the plain >> TeX way, not a LaTeX way of setting page layout. LaTeX does not >> advise you to change these registers and there may be other >> packages relying on their zero values. If you use LaTeX but do not >> follow LaTeX guidelines, you can expect problems. > > I have done this some years ago because I did not find any other > information about the "origin" of the calculation for the page layout: > if you use the latex companion (2nd edition) on page 200 you can read: > > "The circle is at 1 inch from the top and left of the page. Dashed lines > represent (\hoffset + 1 inch) and (\voffset + 1 inch) from the top" > > And everywhere else (for instance p 194) dimensions 1 and 2 are > described as : one inch + \hoffset, one inch + \voffset > > These \hoffset and \voffset are not reported (in latex companion) as > specifically TeX commands! > > I wanted to get rid of these "one inch" to provide the publisher a > "camera ready" file and the way I did was an easy way to give a > centered text with the text width and height given by the publisher... > > When I have done this, it was the first edition of the latex companion > and in the second edition, the offset commands are still there! > > > > - -- > François Patte > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 > Université Paris Descartes > 45, rue des Saints Pères > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Howdy, May I suggest using the geometry package? It will take care of all the necessary calculations. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
