X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["799" "Wed" " 2" "February" "1994" "10:28:20" "+0000" "Rainer Schoepf" "schoepf@SC" "<199402020930.AA10522@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "23" "Re: On the death of \\footheight" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994020210:28:20" "On the death of \\footheight" nil "<199402011958.AA24154@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de*@MHS>"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA25215; Wed, 2 Feb 94 10:30:23 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA14243; Wed, 2 Feb 94 10:30:22 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA10522 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:30:18 +0100 Message-Id: <199402020930.AA10522@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5290; Wed, 02 Feb 94 10:30:10 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5289; Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:30:10 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3251; Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:28:24 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin In-Reply-To: <199402011958.AA24154@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de*@MHS> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:28:20 +0000 From: Rainer Schoepf Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: On the death of \footheight Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1384 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. What am I overlooking? Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin Federal Republic of Germany or