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Date:         Wed, 16 Feb 1994 10:06:05 +0100
From: "Johannes L. Braams" <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
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Subject:      Re: Query about \textheight computation
Status: R

    On Tuesday, February 15 Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk commented on
    the way \textheight and \topmargin are computed in the class
    files.

    Let me say this about this subject: the layout parameters are not
    finalised yet, we still have plans to change some of them. The
    value of 1.5 inch is a left over from the time when I was working
    on it and needed a quick solution to get something halfway decent.
    That may most certainly be changed.

    We still want to compute the textheight such that a whole number
    of baselineskips fits in the the textheight area. We also want to
    compute those values to support several papersizes. We know that
    the designs reached this way are not superb document design,  but
    that can't be acheived anyway when doing something like this. You
    need a specialized class for that.

    As to the value of the topmargin, running the layout package (not
    yet available for LaTeX2e, I'm currentluy working on it) with
    class article and 12pt option tells me \topmargin is 17pt.

    If you have any suggestions to do a better computation I'd welcome
    to see them.

    For the LaTeX3 project,

        Johannes Braams

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