LaTeX : TOP EDGE -> FIRST LINE

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From: Colin Burvill
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 05:06

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Latex question...

I expected the distance from the top edge of the A4 paper
to the top of my 'document' to be 1 inch.
A latex book by Buerger and THE latex book (p163)
asserts only 1 inch is unused at the top of the document..

The version of Latex I use is 
LaTeX Version 2.09 <24 May 1989>
running on a Personal Iris.

This is the page layout I'm using in the preamble.tex file...

\topmargin 0mm
\headheight 0mm
\headsep 0mm
\oddsidemargin 0mm
\evensidemargin 0mm
\marginparsep 0mm
\marginparwidth 0mm
\footskip 10mm

% \textheight 230mm
\textheight 235mm
% \textwidth 170mm
\textwidth 165mm

...the text doesn't want to start any higher up the page than
approx 40mm below the top edge, not 25.4mm as expected. 
A latex book by Buerger and THE latex book (p163)
says only 1 inch is unused at the top of the document.

This is not a printer fault/problem. The previewers I've used
(texsgi for example) show the same text positioning.

I'm baffled! 

Any gurus out there with some suggestions/advice.

Colin Burvill
colb@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au  
128.250.20.3        

PS I couldn't find anything in the FAQ file.

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Subject: LaTeX : TOP EDGE -> FIRST LINE
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