Re: latex packages

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:05:25PM -0800, Richard Otte insinuated:
> Nori,
> I saw a recent message about not displaying the page number on the first
> page of a Latex document.  What interested me is that you said you
> start every .tex file off with some material, that includes:
> 
> \usepackage{geometry} 
> \geometry{tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in}
> 
> I am just beginning to use latex, but I've noticed my top and bottom
> margins are huge.  Unfortunately, I don't think I have the geometry
> package installed, because I get an error message when I put the
> above in the file and run Latex on it.  Did you write the package
> yourself? Or if not, do you know where I could find it.  

copying the list because i don't know, and i certainly didn't write it
myself.  i just have it, and i find that explicitly setting the
margins gives much better results -- i hate those huge top margins,
too.  anyone know where to get extra LaTeX packages?

</nori>

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