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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-chngmargonfly.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-chngmargonfly.html index 49928ea5193..6ded5d79316 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-chngmargonfly.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-chngmargonfly.html @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label chngmargonfly</title> </head><body> -<h3>Changing margins “on the fly”</h3> +<h3>Changing margins “on the fly”</h3> <p/>One of the surprises characteristic of TeX use is that you cannot change the width or height of the text within the document, simply by -modifying the text size parameters; TeX can’t change the text width +modifying the text size parameters; TeX can’t change the text width on the fly, and LaTeX only ever looks at text height when starting a new page. <p/>So the simple rule is that the parameters should only be @@ -27,23 +27,23 @@ happened. </pre> </blockquote><p> The environment takes two arguments, and will indent the left and -right margins, respectively, by the parameters’ values. Negative +right margins, respectively, by the parameters’ values. Negative values will cause the margins to be narrowed, so <code>\</code><code>begin{changemargin}{-1cm}{-1cm}</code> narrows the left and right margins by 1 centimetre. -<p/>Given that TeX can’t do this, how does it work? — well, the +<p/>Given that TeX can’t do this, how does it work? — well, the environment (which is a close relation of the LaTeX -<code>quote</code> environment) <em>doesn’t</em> change the text width +<code>quote</code> environment) <em>doesn’t</em> change the text width as far as TeX is concerned: it merely moves text around inside the width that TeX believes in. <p/>The <i>changepage</i> package provides ready-built commands to do the above; it includes provision for changing the shifts applied to -your text according to whether you’re on an odd (<em>recto</em>) or an +your text according to whether you’re on an odd (<em>recto</em>) or an even (<em>verso</em>) page of a two-sided document. -<i>Changepage</i>’s structure matches that of the <i>memoir</i> +<i>Changepage</i>’s structure matches that of the <i>memoir</i> class. <p/>The (earlier) package <i>chngpage</i> provides the same facilities, -but it uses rather different syntax. <i>Changepage</i>’s structure +but it uses rather different syntax. <i>Changepage</i>’s structure matches that of the <i>memoir</i> class, and it should be used for any new work. <p/>Changing the vertical dimensions of a page is more clumsy still: the |