If just the top margin, totally reasonable. I assumed differently, since it
never crossed my mind that anybody *wouldn't* start a chapter lower down on
the page, thus in my world a request for a 2in top margin on the first page
of a chapter would be moot. But I don't know what books in any other
field look like.

My thesis czars were actually quite sane--the main rules were about ensuring
nothing got chopped when they trimmed the pages after binding, so they whip
out a ruler and measure the margins. Otherwise fairly flexible.

DM

On 5/11/05 3:31 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I'm guessing it's just the top margin, which is reasonable. Although I do
use Next Page breaks between chapters in books, I don't actually change the
top margin (by adding space to the First Page Header). I usually use a
Chapter Number or Chapter Title (whichever comes first) style with enough
Space Before to drop it the desired amount. In some cases where the depth of
the chapter number and title and any epigraph that may follow will vary, I
put the whole thing in a single (borderless) table cell set to an exact
height so that the first line of Body Text (which will start below the
table) will appear at the same point on the first page of each chapter.