Re: Extra margin space for footers?

[Michael Koehmstedt, RenPet]

Jeffrey,

Thanks for the explanation. I understand what's going on better. I set my bottom page margin to .40i for the footer and the @MidGap to .35i, which gives an effective body text bottom margin of .75i. 

I must also say how enjoyable it has been to use Lout so far. I'm doing a project for work and I first tried to use latex, but quickly grew to hate it. It kind of was the epitome of what I dislike about old unix software: bloated and complicated. Lout, on the other hand, is impressively small and simple while still getting the job done. It's wonderful that I'll be able to drop the interpreter source code into my own project. I thank you for your good work.

Michael

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> wrote:

Michael,

Lout doesn't recognize the concept of a footer margin in the
sense you are using.  It just places the page footer object
(containing the page number or whatever) at the bottom of
the space available on the page, i.e. abutting the bottom
page margin.  It takes up as much space there as it takes up.

If you are trying to get your page footer object to occupy
exactly 0.4 inches directly above the bottom page margin, you
can do that by fiddling with the page footer options of your
setup file, which are described in Section 4.4 of the user's
guide.  For example, you could write

  address@hidden { @Centre 0.4i @High { - @PageNum - } }

and then the page footer on odd-numbered pages would
be 0.4 inches high and contain a centred page number
flanked by dashes.  This is equivalent to adding 0.4
inches minus the height of a page number to the page
foot margin.

If you are trying to change the minimum amount of space
between the body text and the page footer, that space
is @MidGap, another setup file option.

Jeff

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:04:44PM -0700, Michael Koehmstedt, RenPet wrote:
> The area where I'd like to place page numbers and such.
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > What is a footer margin?
> >
> > Jeff Kingston
> >
> > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:36:54PM -0700, Michael Koehmstedt, RenPet wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm rather new to using Lout so please excuse me if this ends up being a
> > > rather simple question.
> > >
> > > Right now I have my page margins set to .75 inches on all sides. What I'd
> > > like to do is have a footer with a margin of .4 inches. However, I don't
> > > see any specific commands for setting the footer margin. Whatever the
> > > bottom margin is set to is where the footer appears. How can I set the
> > > footer margin at .4 inches without moving the page body margin?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael Koehmstedt
> >
> >