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Subject:      Re: On the death of  \footheight
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Rainer,

>  > 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.

I agree, although I was curious to see if others have used. Anyway,
seminar needs several changes to be compatibilty with LaTeX2e,
in or out of compatibility mode.

Tim