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[E. Krishnan]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Arun Swarup wrote:

> i just wanted to know the meaning of the following
> commands
> \setlength{\headheight}{0in}
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(La)TeX being a *typesetting* program has to use several *lengths* (or 
space) parameters, such as what the length and width of text (in a page) 
should be, how much length to be left as margins all around, what should 
be be the vertical length between paragraphs and so on. Several of these 
have predefined values in the standard "document clsses". But the user has 
the freedom to change these values through the "\setlength" command. Thus 
for example, 

	\setlength{\parskip}{10pt}

will leave a vertical space of 10 points between paragraphs in the typeset 
document. Please see Appendix A.1.4 of the LaTeX companion for an 
overview of such matters. 


-- 
Krishnan