Bob Taylor wrote: > I am running FC3 and using Tex for letters and other documents I write. > I have found that the top margin is totally ignored and all printing > seems to be at the top of the page. If I want a 54pt top margin, the > beginning of the page is at the top. If I use the default 1 inch top > margin and 1 inch left margin, then the left margin is 1.5 inch and the > top is 1.05. If I set all margins including the hard ones, then I get > the same 1.5 inch margins. I am using a HP DeskJet 694C printer. It > seems *something* is ignoring the top margin setting. I have changed the > settings via system-config-printer without any change. I have used the - > o page-top=54 option to lpr without any change. I have used the -O x,y > option of dvips without any change. I have used this same printer > running Red Hat 6.2 on this same computer before I installed FC2 on it, > without this problem so it is *not* the printer. I have not found what > or where these margins are set! If you are just concerned with TeX settings, you could run "texconfig" and look at the dvips settings. You can set \topmargin , \oddsidemargin and \evensidemargin in individual LaTeX documents, but that shouldn't be necessary. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
