[texhax] spc b/t body and foot

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> trying to debug some formatting problem:
>
> i have a header and footer, i can make the 'body' of the text
> reach up to the
> header, but when i try
>
> \footskip=negative-or-positive-or-zero %<- tried it anyway
> \textheight=9.0in
>
> the .cls has:
>
> \RequirePackage[letterpaper,margin=0.5in,includeheadfoot]{geometry}
>
> i THINK its using the article package.
>
> beyond that i'm stuck.  how do i make the body of text reach all
> the way down to
> the footer? i.e. make zero space between bottom of 'body' and 'foot'
> (Lamport, p.182)?

Uhm, maybe you already looked, but given you're using geometry didn't you
find anything in the manual to thi package?

Cheers,  Phil