When I set my margins to 25 mm, the bottom margin always turns out to be 28 mm. If I set the bottom margin to 22 mm, it becomes 23 mm, which is too small. Why does this happen? How can I fix this problem? I want all my margins to be 25 mm.
I've tried browsing the internet. I've looked at the manual for the package geometry on CTAN. Still, I just can't solve this problem.
Here's a code sample:
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt]{report}
\author{William Faulkner}
\date{1930}
\title{A Rose For Emily}
\usepackage[
top=25mm,
bottom=25mm,
left=25mm,
right=25mm,
footnotesep=0mm,
ignoreheadfoot,
layoutoffset=0mm,
marginratio=1:1,
offset=0mm,
scale=1,
]{geometry}
\usepackage[
hyphens
]{url}
\usepackage[
hidelinks
]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\section*{Chapter I}
\label{s1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nameref{s1}}
WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her
funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a
fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the
inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a
combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years.
It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white,
decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the
heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once
been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had
encroached and obliterated even the august names of that
neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its
stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the
gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had
gone to join the representatives of those august names where
they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and
anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at
the battle of Jefferson.
Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a
sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that
day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered
the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets
without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating
from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss
Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an
involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned
money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business,
preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris'
generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman
could have believed it.
When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became
mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little
dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax
notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a
formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her
convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering
to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note
on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in
faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The
tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.
They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A
deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no
visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting
lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the
old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into
still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse--a close, dank
smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in
heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the
blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was
cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly
about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single
sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a
crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father.
They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a
thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her
belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her
skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would
have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She
looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water,
and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of
her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a
lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the
visitors stated their errand.
She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and
listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt.
Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of
the gold chain.
Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson.
Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain
access to the city records and satisfy yourselves."
"But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn't
you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?"
"I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he
considers himself the sheriff . . . I have no taxes in
Jefferson."
"But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see We must
go by the--"
"See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson."
"But, Miss Emily--"
"See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost
ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro
appeared. "Show these gentlemen out."
\end{document}
PS: I am not the author of this short story.
Best Answer
You have contradictory requests. The text height you get from your options is
The pages without titles have 31 lines, with
If you compute
so there are 8.24111pt that cannot be covered with text, which correspond to 2.9mm, which is what you're measuring.
Why the computation? A “normal” first line will have its baseline at
\topskipdistance from the top margin, the following lines will be\baselineskipapart. In the chapter page, the first line will have a lower baseline, but there is no real problem, because the vertica space after a section title is flexible.Here's the picture (I added the
shoframeoption togeometry):If you add
\flushbottomin the document preamble the picture would bebut the space is obtained by increasing the gap between paragraphs
which is out of question.
You need to do some arithmetic in order to distribute the 8.24111pt across the interline spaces. Here it is:
So let's add
and the picture will be
The last baseline sits where you expect it and there's no gap between paragraphs.
Here's the full code, with some adjustments to avoid problems with
hyperref.I didn't change the
"quotes, but you should, for exampleWith
"you getWith the suggested code you'd get