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Date:         Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:03:41 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: On the death of \footheight
Status: R

From:          Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>
%>
%>Tim Van Zandt writes:
%>
%> > I just noticed that seminar.sty uses \footheight. seminar.sty centers
 slides
%> > between the header and the footer. To keep the position
%> > constant even though the actual size of the footers and headers
%> > can change slightly from one slide to another, I use
%> > \headheight and \footheight instead of the actual size of
%> > the header and footer.
%>
%>But the value of \footheight is used nowhere else in LaTeX (not even
%>to determine the page layout in the output routine), so using it for
%>your own purposes seems to be a red herring.
%>

Gosh! So some people actually do still use LaTeX' output routine unmodified?
Mike
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