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My thesis requirements state that the page numbers must be "centered at one inch from the bottom of the page." All the margins are to be 1 inch and nothing can be printed in the margin area.

I have tried to do this by subtracting the height of the footnote from the \textheight. But I am getting Underfull \vbox warnings on almost every page.

Is there a better way to do this?

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{memoir}

\DoubleSpacing
\flushbottom

\setlrmarginsandblock{1in}{1in}{*} % 1 inch margins on both sides
\setlength{\uppermargin}{1in}
\setlength{\footskip}{2\onelineskip}
\setlength{\lowermargin}{1in}
\setlength{\textheight}{\paperheight}
\addtolength{\textheight}{-\uppermargin}
\addtolength{\textheight}{-\footskip}
\addtolength{\textheight}{-\lowermargin}
\checkandfixthelayout[nearest]

\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum

\lipsum[1]\footnote{\lipsum[2]}

\lipsum[3]\footnote{\lipsum[4]}
\lipsum[5]\footnote{\lipsum[6]}

\lipsum[7]\footnote{\lipsum[8]}

\lipsum[1]\footnote{\lipsum[2]}
\lipsum[3]\footnote{\lipsum[4]}

\lipsum[5]\footnote{\lipsum[6]}

\lipsum[7]\footnote{\lipsum[8]}

\lipsum[9]

\end{document}
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  • Do you really need \flushbottom? Removing it the warning disappears. – karlkoeller Dec 29 '14 at 20:16
  • Hmmm, this seems easy enough using \geometry{margin=1in,includeheadfoot} with geometry. – Werner Dec 29 '14 at 20:28
  • @Werner If I replace the layout adjustment block in the MWE with your suggestion, I get even more warnings. Memoir and geometry don't get along well. – musarithmia Dec 29 '14 at 20:36
  • @karlkoeller In the end I may have to do that, and I doubt anyone but me would care. But I wanted to know if this was possible with \flushbottom. – musarithmia Dec 29 '14 at 20:40
  • @AndrewCashner: You minimal example only shows this problem on page four. It's certainly to do with using \flushbottom. Using \raggedbottom (perhaps the memoir default) should solve the problem. It's also common to experience this type of problem when dealing with an increased line spacing. – Werner Dec 29 '14 at 21:12
  • Why are you using \flushbottom in the first place? It is already the memoir default. If I remove it and recompile, AFAICS I get exactly the same, and no \vbox stuff. – daleif Dec 29 '14 at 22:05
  • @daleif memman p. 5: "When the twoside or twocolumn option is selected then typesetting is done with \flushbottom, otherwise it is done with \raggedbottom." The example uses theoneside option, so it would use \raggedbottom by default. – musarithmia Dec 29 '14 at 22:11
  • @Werner You're right, I think this is a combination of increased line spacing plus a lot of large tables and figures in the real document. I suppose it's not worth the effort to make it \flushbottom. – musarithmia Dec 29 '14 at 22:17
  • @AndrewCashner, you're right, I usually never use oneside for larger documents. – daleif Dec 29 '14 at 22:39

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Without \flushbottom (that is, with \raggedbottom selected instead by default), this page layout works fine without any warnings.

By default memoir uses \raggedbottom for documents with the oneside option. I realize now that one of the main reasons for using \flushbottom is to align text on facing pages of a twoside document. So it really doesn't make sense to do \flushbottom in this case, especially for a research document.

Thank you to @karlkoeller, @Werner, and @daleif for setting me straight.

EDIT

Thanks to this question (How to keep footnotes to the bottom of the page with \sloppybottom in memoir?), I discovered I can use the package fnpos with its default options to keep all footnotes at the bottom of the page. So the extra space added on the \raggedbottom pages gets added above the footnotes instead of below. This greatly improves the page appearance, in my opinion.

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