[texhax] A problem of `strechability'

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2014-09-28 at 16:00:39 +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:

 > Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 > 
 > > At the beginning of the document, just after `\documentclass', I put the
 > > following three lines:
 > > 
 > > \flushbottom % in order to cancel \raggedbottom
 > > \parskip=0pt plus10000pt
 > > \baselineskip=12pt plus10000pt
 > > 
 > > but that had no effect at all.
 > > 
 > > Thanks,
 > > 
 > > Rodolfo
 > 
 > Then it is extremely probable that LaTeX itself (or the document
 > class, or a package you are loading) is overriding those values.
 > You might like to ask LaTeX to output the values at the start of
 > the document proper, and also just prior to the point at which the
 > page break occurs.

Good advice, Phil!  Some packages execute macros \AtBeginDocument{}
and thus overwrite code defined in the preamble.  It often makes a
difference whether you change the value of a variable before or after
\begin{document}.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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