On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:58:31 +0100, Rainer Schöpf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ulrich Dirr wrote: > > > Maybe someone could explain this behavior to me? > > Simple rounding errors. Internally everything is computed in scaled > points > = 1/65536pt. So, your \baselineskip is > > 13*7227*65536 / 7200 = 855162 > > The textheight is then > > 39*855162 + 10*65536 = 34006678 > > In points this is > > 34006678/65536 = 518.90073 Let me just ad that defining the textheight as 39\baselineskip+\topskip instead of 39*13bp+\topskip will give you the result you want. -- Morten Høgholm