[comp.text] Problem in Latex!!

TING-WEN@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Wen Ting) (01/23/89)

	Does somebody know how to change the normal height and width
	of the body of a page in an article style of Latex? So far,
	I've 8-page output by report-style using two-column. However,
	the place where my paper will be sent to recommends me to have
	5-PAGE. Is there a way to reduce the number of pages of the 
	output?

	Your help will be appreciated.

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	Wen Ting
	Department of Computer and Information Science
	The Ohio State University
	E-mail: ting-wen@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
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mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (01/23/89)

 Page 163 LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual:

\textheight The normal height of the body of a page.  With
\flushbottom in effect, rubber vertical space will be stretched to
make the body exactly this height.

\textwidth The normal width of the text on the age (when not inside an
environment that changes the margins).

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charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) (01/23/89)

In article <12464662464008@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> 
TING-WEN@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Wen Ting) writes:
 
>	Does somebody know how to change the normal height and width
>	of the body of a page in an article style of Latex? So far,
>	I've 8-page output by report-style using two-column. However,
>	the place where my paper will be sent to recommends me to have
>	5-PAGE. Is there a way to reduce the number of pages of the 
>	output?

In the preamble (between \documentstyle{article} and \begin{document}) put

 \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
 \setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
 \setlength{\textheight}{8.25in}

This gets about as much on an 8 1/2 by 11 page as LaTeX will do.  I doubt
it will get 8 pages of default format on 5 pages though.

Hope this helps.