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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problem with fancyheadings.sty
Keywords: fancyheadings overfull vbox
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Date: 27 Sep 90 12:13:32 GMT
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>>>>> In article <1162@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu>, eddins@trace.eedsp.gatech.edu (SE) writes:

SE> When I use fancyheadings.sty by Piet van Oostrum, I get an overfull
SE> vbox message on every page.  It is generally the same amount
SE> (11.20007pt is a typical dimension).  I've never been able to get rid
SE> of the message by playing around with various length parameters that
SE> seemed applicable --- the only result is that the overfull amount
SE> changes.  Does anyone have experience with this and know how to fix
SE> it?

This is caused by the fact that the \headheight in the standard styles is
rather small, especially if you use 11pt or 12pt options or bigger
headlines.

The same may apply to \footskip. So if you make these a little bit bigger,
your problems should disappear. In the next version I will document this.
Compare also the following from fancyheadings.doc:

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Each of the six fields is set in an appropriate parbox, so you can put a
multiline part in it with the \\ command. It is also possible to put
extra space in it with the \vspace command. Note that if you do this you
will probably have to increase the \headheight or \footskip lengths.
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