Problems with a4 and a4wide styles...

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2 total messages Started by A.Raman Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00

#11538

Author: A.Raman
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00

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I have a document that I am trying to typeset on a4 paper.  But LaTeX
leaves a disproportionately wide top margin and a bottom margin so
small that half the page number has gone off the page!

I suppose I can hack the a4 style description, but I'd rather not do
that if this is a common enough problem caused by something not being
done right.

Can anyone enlighten me on what to do please?  This also happens with
the a4wide style and both in latex209 and latex2e using \usepackage{a4}

Email replies please, I can summarise if I get enough queries asking
me for solutions I have received.

- &

Re: Problems with a4 and a4wide styles...

#11539

Author: Jacob Bohn Lorensen
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:00

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>>>>> "A" == A Raman <A.Raman@massey.ac.nz> writes:

    A> I have a document that I am trying to typeset on a4 paper.  But
    A> LaTeX leaves a disproportionately wide top margin and a bottom
    A> margin so small that half the page number has gone off the
    A> page!

I have just solved this exact same problem. My ``problem'' was that I
am using dvips / ghostscript (v4.03), and apparently ghostscript gets
the margins wrong. Latex'ing and printing the file ``testpage.tex''[1]
showed me by how much (17mm), so I changed the config.ps file to
include the line

  O 0mm,-17mm

and all is now fine.

Hope this helps.

[1] In my teTeX distribution it was found in
    .../teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/testpage.tex.

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