[texhax] default length of a space

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Tue Nov 4 14:33:04 CET 2014


Am Tue, 4 Nov 2014 06:33:14 -0500 schrieb Gerard E. Seibert:

> One last question. I tried using "\the \rightmargin" and it always displays
> "0"; however "\the \leftmargin" shows the margin size. Why is the
> "\rightmargin" not shown?

\leftmargin doesn't show the margin size but the indent of a list. 

You would get a non-zero \rightmargin in a list like quote with
right indent too:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{quote}
\the\leftmargin, \the\rightmargin
\end{quote}
\end{document}



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Ulrike Fischer 
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