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From: kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: First line, first page in LaTeX
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Date: 21 Apr 89 22:30:11 GMT
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It appears from experimentation (I'm no [La]TeX expert) that no matter what I
do, LaTeX puts the first line of an article at the same vertical position; I
can't move it higher on the page as hard as I try, no matter what \textheight
is set to, no matter what \vskip -[arg] I insert.  It looks to me that after a
certain point, incrementing \textheight simply adds to the bottom of the page,
without changing the top margin (this is after I've set \topmargin to 0 true in
long since).

Is there a way to get LaTeX to move up the beginning of a page?  I'm using
article-10 format, on LaTex 2.09 of March '87.  Help would be appreciated; I
have the canonical 5-page paper and four allocated pages in the conference
proceedings.  Thanks ....

Kevin Thompson
kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov     Sterling Software/Nasa-Ames Research Center

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kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov     Sterling Software/Nasa-Ames Research Center