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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: The space between the headline and the text..
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:19:25 GMT
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v096my2q@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Mark A Wieczorek) writes:


>	I've got a question.  Whenever I print out a document using
>TeX, I always get a little bit of extra space between the headline and
>the first line of text, on the FIRST page only. On all the following
>pages their is barely any space between these two.

You're using plain TeX?
The page that you see consists of
1/ the headline
2/ the page contents
3/ the footline

The page contents themselves are not supposed to have any
glue on top. The \topskip tries to get the baseline of the
first line at 10pt beneath the top of the page box, that's all.

The headline in plain TeX has some glue in it, but that's
the same for every page. Furthermore, this glue is at least something
like 10pt, so if youhave 'barely any space' you have been tinkering
with it yourself.

Conclusion: there is somethng wrong with your macros.

Victor.