roc wrote:
Oh, you're saying that whatever bottom margin we apply to BODY on the
first page collapses with the bottom page margin?

No.... What should happen, given a paragraph with margin of size 1em, say, in a columnated body is the following:


aaaa aaaa aaaa
aaaa aaaa aaaa
aaaa aaaa
aaaa aaaa

If we have two paragraphs, we should have something like:

1111 1111 2222
1111 1111 2222
1111      2222
1111 2222 2222

In both cases, I would say that the layout should, ideally, not depend on the margin of the columnated body... I'm not sure whether that's feasible, though. In the case when the body has a bigger margin than the paragraph, I think margin collapsing makes this work right no matter whether the margins are left on the in-flows of the paragraph or not. When the body has a margin smaller than the paragraph (say it has a border so no border-collapsing occurs), if we don't put margins on the in-flows we'll get a layout more like:

     1111 2222
1111 1111 2222
1111      2222
1111 2222 2222

(not dealing with the bottom margin of the last-in-flow of the second paragraph here, since I'm not quite sure what effect it would have).

But then, should the top margin of the first page's BODY collapse
> with the top page margin? I don't think so.

Why not?  I would think it should....

-Boris

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