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What is the difference between \hsize, \linewidth, \textwidth and \pagewidth? Which are affected by environments (like an enumeration or a minipage)? Did I miss any useful width lengths?
There are many more lengths useful to layout in LaTeX. The ones related to “page” layout are mostly here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout
\linewidth is width of text in current environment.
I myself am not sure about how \hsize relates to the others, although I think it’s supposed to be the width of text on the page.