Page Layout ⇒ Bottom margin in a single page

[Chaabain]

Good evening,

I am a new user of LaTeX. I would like to know how I could change just the bottom margin of a single page without influencing the margins of other pages.

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
Chaabain

[localghost]

A few more details about what you are after couldn't do any harm. If it's only about getting a bit more text on that page, this is done with a single command at the concerned place.

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\enlargthispage[2\baselineskip]   % allow two more lines on current page

Note that this actually doesn't touch the bottom margin and may overwrite the content in the footer.

If you want to really alter the bottom margin, take a look at the geometry package. It allows to alter the page geometry within the document and restore it later on.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[frabjous]

Thorsten made a couple typos while typing the command. It's \enlargethispage not \enlargthispage, and its argument goes in braces {...} not brackets.

But the thing I really wanted to note is that you can also use a negative value if you wanted to increase the bottom margin on a page:

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\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}

[localghost]

Thorsten made a couple typos while typing the command. It's \enlargethispage not \enlargthispage, and its argument goes in braces {...} not brackets. […]

Oh yes, indeed. Don't know where I had my head.

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\enlargethispage{2\baselineskip}   % allow two more lines on current page

[Chaabain]

This command:
\enlargethispage{4\baselineskip}
perfectly works except that it increases the top margin and I don't want to do that.