X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["947" "Wed" " 2" "February" "1994" "13:21:25" "+0100" "Tim Van Zandt" "tvz@core.ucl.ac.be" "<199402021233.AA15980@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "29" "Re: On the death of \\footheight" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994020212:21:25" "On the death of \\footheight" nil nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA25825; Wed, 2 Feb 94 13:34:56 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA15581; Wed, 2 Feb 94 13:33:53 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA15980 (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 13:33:51 +0100 Message-Id: <199402021233.AA15980@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 6992; Wed, 02 Feb 94 13:33:47 +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 6991; Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:33:47 +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 5024; Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:33:22 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:21:25 +0100 From: Tim Van Zandt 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: 1392 > David Carlisle writes: > If you [Mike], Or Tim, are using a non-standard output routine that uses a > dimen called \footheight, it is surely not much trouble for you to add > \newdimen\footheight to the definition of the output routine. > > That does not mean that all the other thousands of LaTeX users should > have one of the very limited dimen registers wasted by being allocated > but never used. I certainly agree that \footheight does not need to be kept around in LaTeX2e's native mode, but I think latex209.cmp should have \newdimen\footheight instead of \let\footheight\@tempdima But I probably should have just sent such a suggestion to the LaTeX2e bug address, instead of posting here.--- Timothy Van Zandt Department of Economics, Princeton University 1993-1994: Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Tim