Adam Lindsay wrote:
\definelayout[odd][ header=2in, % the space for headers footer=2in, % the space for footers height=7in % the height of the body text ]
This (nominally, without use of page=high or some such) leaves three inches for the body text. Unlike the right/left margin, header/footer space is considered part of the textblock's height. I don't know the historical reasons for this, but it makes a kind of sense.
just keep in mind that header and footer lines can be empty, not-present, high, etc, so in a sense they are part of the flow margins are virtual things and their width influence line breaking, backgrounds etc, since there can be multiple margins it does not make sense to define back-of-page -> text as being the margin, because then we would need other variables to set the real ones; backspace (in dutch 'rugwit' is a better name i think) is more convenient Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------