Page numbers too close to text body

[david...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am currently writing my thesis in latex and I am using the article
document class. After compiling the .tex document to pdf it happens on
some pages that the page number at the bottom of the page overlaps
with the text. Is there a way to specifiy the space between the page
number and the text?

i tried \footskip but it seemed only to affect footnotes and not the
page numbering.

Any help is much appreciated.

David Poelz

[vvvv]

You might have set the \textheight too high given the height of the
header at the top. If the spacing on the top of the page is OK, then
reduce the \textheight. You can either try:

\advance\textheight by -.5in

or you can try coding a specific value:

\setlength{\textheight}{9in}%

The difference between pages might be related to orphan and widow
control that makes some pages longer than others.

[Werner Grundlingh]

The geometry package is also a great source of help in changing the
complete document layout. It is available via CTAN from
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=geometry

Werner

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:18:25 -0700 (PDT) schrieb david...@gmail.com:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently writing my thesis in latex and I am using the article
> document class. After compiling the .tex document to pdf it happens on
> some pages that the page number at the bottom of the page overlaps
> with the text. Is there a way to specifiy the space between the page
> number and the text?

It is not normal that the text overwrites the page number. There is
probably something wrong in your document.

Make a complete minimal example.

--
Ulrike Fischer

[Peter Flynn]

david...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently writing my thesis in latex and I am using the article
> document class.

I'm just being curious...why not book or report class: they would seem
to be closer to the construction of a thesis than article is.

> After compiling the .tex document to pdf it happens on
> some pages that the page number at the bottom of the page overlaps
> with the text. Is there a way to specifiy the space between the page
> number and the text?

This is abnormal. You have done something that you're not telling us.
Use the geometry package to set the page dimensions. Or make a minimal
example to show us what doesn't work.

///Peter