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Subject: Re: problem with fancyheadings.sty
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.075649.973@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 2 Oct 90 06:56:49 GMT
References: <1162@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <1162@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu>, eddins@trace.eedsp.gatech.edu writes:
> When I use fancyheadings.sty by Piet van Oostrum, I get an overfull
> vbox message on every page.  It is generally the same amount
> (11.20007pt is a typical dimension).  I've never been able to get rid
> of the message by playing around with various length parameters that
> seemed applicable --- the only result is that the overfull amount
> changes.  Does anyone have experience with this and know how to fix
> it?

fancyheadings.sty is a very nice style option. I use it quite a lot. To
your problem: you have to change \LaTeX's page style parameters
(see page 163 in the \LaTeX-book): Increase \headheight (and maybe
change \topmargin and/or \headsep) and eventually increase \footskip.

> Steve Eddins
> Georgia Tech, PO 33575, School of Elec Eng, Atlanta, GA  30332-0250
> internet: eddins@eedsp.gatech.edu 		uucp:  gatech!eedsp!eddins

Petr Zimak, Computing Department, University of Basel, Switzerland
zimak1@urz.unibas.ch  ---  zimak@urz.unibas.ch