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Re: How to make the top margin to be exactly 1 inch ?

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From: Jesse Lee
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 23:21
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jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:

>I am using the following settings in the preamble of my thesis:
>%
>\setlength{\marginparwidth}{0pt}
>\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt}
>\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0pt}
>\setlength{\marginparsep}{0pt}
>\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
>\setlength{\textwidth}{6in}
>\setlength{\hoffset}{0.5in}% Shift 0.5in to the right
>\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
>\setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
>\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
>\setlength{\textheight}{8.9in}% Just like Plain TeX
>%
>because I want the left margin to be 1.5in and the rest of the margins to be
>1in exact. However it turns out the top margin is not exactly 1 inch. Its
>height is about 1in + approximately 1 baselineskip. 

>My question is why I cannot get the top margin to be 1 inch exactly.
>How can I remove that extra space?

I forget to mention that I cannot get the page number to be at exact
position on each page. Does anyone know why?

Jesse Lee
jesse@cs.ualberta.ca

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