[texhax] spc b/t body and foot

[Uwe Lück]

At 02:17 05.04.06, Bryan W. Lepore wrote:
>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)?

In general, this is only possible if there is stretchable glue on the page
-- space between paragraphs, around section headings, around lists,
inside lists. However, this glue may often be missing, or it looks very
awkward when there is space between paragraphs on some pages
and on other pages not -- so I decided to give up this idea in a
current project.

Good luck,
   Uwe.