I believe that it's because someone from not-America compiled LaTeX on
Slackware and the papersize default is A4 instead of US Letter. There's a
couple of LaTeX commands to change it on a per-document basis that I can't
remember. Fire up Klyx, make a "hello, world" document with the US Letter
setting. Then view the source to discover the commands.
I think you can also recompile LaTeX to get the desired effect. Or maybe
there's a latex.conf file floating around somewhere --it's been a few
years.
Cheers,
Robert Kennedy
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Smith wrote:
> I've found a weird problem with Latex on Slackware 7.0. When I
> run Latex with the correct margins (1 in.), the resulting dvi
> file has about a 1.5in margin on the top and 0.5 on the bottom.
> Basically the text just gets scooted down. Same thing appears
> on the postscript generated with dvips. This means my text is getting
> cut off.
>
> When I latex the same file on a RH system, the margins look
> fine. Does anyone know what I could change to fix this?
> I looked in /usr/share/texmf, but I couldn't find anything
> that might affect the margins.
>
> TIA,
> Dave
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