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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX prints off the bottom of the first page
Message-ID: <1989Jul2.223210.25190@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 89 22:32:10 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|When I print, there is no pagebreak at the end of the first page
|unless I force it. The words simply print off the end of the page.
|After a paragraph or two, the document picks up on the next page. The
|subsequent pages cause no problem whatsoever.  While I can put in the
|pagebreak at the appropriate place to make it do what I want, I would
|think that LaTeX could figure out the pagebreak by itself.

Move the \begin{document} to just after \documentstyle. You should not
have any matter to be typeset before the \begin{document} line.