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From: has@ztivax.UUCP (Hans-Albert Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: LaTeX problem designing new letter style
Message-ID: <893@ztivax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 10:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: has@ztivax.UUCP (Hans-Albert Schneider)
Organization: Siemens AG in Munich, W-Germany
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Hello everybody!

Trying to create a new letter style (actually, a style option) for
LaTeX, I ran into some minor problems.

The style is to be used with our firm's preprinted letter sheets,
i.e., the dimensions for the first page are to fit into this format. I
succeeded to position the stuff for the heading and the first page's
footer as desired; however, since this preprinted footer is rather
large -- it extends to some 5cm (about 2in) from the bottom of the
page -- I would like to have a different \textheight for the first page.
I tried the following:

	\def\ps@firstpage{
	 \setlength{\textheight}{19cm}
	 \setlength{\footskip}{6cm}
	 \def\@oddhead{}
	...}
and \thispagestyle{firstpage} in the definition of \opening.

Though \footskip is obeyed, \textheight is not.

Furthermore, I would like to set \textwidth (and, if that should prove
necessary, \oddsidemargin) differently for the footer (of the first
page) to avoid "Overfull \hbox" messages. Guess -- \textwidth is ignored
(I did not try with \oddsidemargin).

Please email any suggestions to me (as I do not read this newsgroup
regularly); I'll try them and summarize to the net.
-- 
Hans-Albert Schneider			ARPA: has@ztivax.siemens.com
Siemens AG, ZFE IS INF 21		or:   has%ztivax@siemens.siemens.com
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, Munich, W.Germany	EUnet & UUCP:
phone: (+49) 89 636 45 890			has@ztivax.UUCP