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From: young@emx.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Page Composing Dimensions in Plain TeX
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Date: 3 Jun 91 04:24:02 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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Can anyone telll me how to set dimensions for composing pages
in plain \TeX?

motivations: 
 1. I want to avoid underfull or overfull warning
    messages (for header and footer) when I use
    11 or 12 point fonts.
 2. I want to make
    the body height of the first page of document
    = the body height (or other pages) - footer height - footer sep.


The following illustrates what I want to know:

  +------------------------------+
  |         Page Header          |   <- header height???
  +------------------------------+
                                     <- header set.???
->C------------------------------+
  |                              |
  |         Page Body            |   <- body height = \vsize
  |                              |
  +------------------------------+
                                     <- footer sep.???
  +------------------------------+
  |         Page Footer          |   <- footer height???
  +------------------------------+
                 ^
                 |
             body width = \hsize

C = (\voffset,\hoffset)


Thanks in advance.

Young U. Ryu
The Univ. of Texas at Austin
young@emx.utexas.edu