[Tugindia] tugindia Digest, Vol 62, Issue 3

David Owen twychicky at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 01:55:18 CET 2008


Dear Svenkat,
Thanks very much for your help. I shall try this.
Thanks.
D. Owen

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> Hi, Everyone,
> Thanks for the help. I have two more little problems:
> 1)   I have tried to center on a page,  say,  the title "Introduction" by
> using
> \centerline{\section{Introduction}}
> but it does not work. I am using Winedt and it gives the message
> "Something's wrong. Perhaps a missing \item".
> If I use
> \centerline{  \bf{ Introduction} }
> this does not give me what I want.
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
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> 2) Can someone tell me how to leave a space of say, 3.5cm, at the top of
> the
> first page of a document but leave a margin of 4cm on all other pages?
> Thanks again for everything.
> D.O.
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> Regarding 1) the package titlesec package is
>  a very comprehensive package
> for customising chapter and section headings.
> Regarding leaving space on the first page,
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> Regarding 2) there is a possible way.
> If you want to do it manually then use
> the \changepage{} command in the chngpage.sty
> which is part of ltxmisc to
> change the textheight for the first page.  Then, add
> a command  \afterpage{\changepage{}} commands to change the
> textheight for the remaining pages. You need to load the
> package afterpage.sty to use the \afterpage command.
> Note:The documentation for \changepage command is
> in the file chngpage.sty.
> Best regards,
> S. Venkataraman
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