I am using memoir class, have written books total over 500000 words but am tired of my system putting page one and all odd pages on what I would consider to be the verso page. To me the verso page has the bind margin or spine margin on the right hand of the text. This may be a problem with my installation of LyX but I had it from the very start and when I upgraded to LyX 1.4.4 the problem stayed the same.
I have taken a pile of printed books hard and soft cover and looked. Every one of them has the odd page number 1,3,5,7 etc on the page which has binding on the left side of the text.
I have studied the class file for memoir class and find it has lots of \ifodd entries in the listing. Looking at those I thought at first I could just find all the \ifodd commands around but examining the flow and all the patches that the author of memoir put in it I expect i would make trouble and unexpected things happen if I did that. Does any one have a solution? I want the odd pages including page one to have the binding margin on the left of the text.
LyX ⇒ Making Page one placed on the correct Side of Paper
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Making Page one placed on the correct Side of Paper
I am replying to my own post in the hope that any one else who starts chasing fairies will find this.
A special note for any one proposing to write a Novel, using memoir or another class, that provides for double sided pages in LyX. LyX is so very easy to learn, that you will will rush in, get creative and type a huge number of words. You will at some point view the DVI or print what you have written. Your first impression will be, It really looks good, but then you conclude, that the binding margin is on the wrong side?
Many many new users of LyX make this mistake. The binding margin is in fact not on the wrong side. Provision for binding has already been looked after by the class authors. You do not need to do anything. Provision for binding is done in that "narrower" margin on the side of the page where it is meant to be bound. Here is why it looks wrong to you.
Your eye is telling you that the widest margin alongside the text is for binding. Pick up a novel, open it anywhere you like. On left hand will be an even numbered page. Between the text and the edge of the paper on that even page is a white space (a margin). Cross your eye over the block of text, and you find on the right of the text a much narrower margin of white space, then the binding seam and then another narrow margin, then the text of the odd numbered page and then an outer wide margin.
Now look at the far left and far right margins and notice that they are equal. Look at the center between the two pages, the combined white space of the two
inner margins (where the binding is) is actually equal to or nearly equal to the white space at the outer edges of the pages. What they have done is made it print three equal sized white spaces, left center and right, which is the correct way to print books. Anything else would not look nice at all. LyX has done the same with your document, automatically; the moment you selected double sided pages, in your document settings.
A special note for any one proposing to write a Novel, using memoir or another class, that provides for double sided pages in LyX. LyX is so very easy to learn, that you will will rush in, get creative and type a huge number of words. You will at some point view the DVI or print what you have written. Your first impression will be, It really looks good, but then you conclude, that the binding margin is on the wrong side?
Many many new users of LyX make this mistake. The binding margin is in fact not on the wrong side. Provision for binding has already been looked after by the class authors. You do not need to do anything. Provision for binding is done in that "narrower" margin on the side of the page where it is meant to be bound. Here is why it looks wrong to you.
Your eye is telling you that the widest margin alongside the text is for binding. Pick up a novel, open it anywhere you like. On left hand will be an even numbered page. Between the text and the edge of the paper on that even page is a white space (a margin). Cross your eye over the block of text, and you find on the right of the text a much narrower margin of white space, then the binding seam and then another narrow margin, then the text of the odd numbered page and then an outer wide margin.
Now look at the far left and far right margins and notice that they are equal. Look at the center between the two pages, the combined white space of the two
inner margins (where the binding is) is actually equal to or nearly equal to the white space at the outer edges of the pages. What they have done is made it print three equal sized white spaces, left center and right, which is the correct way to print books. Anything else would not look nice at all. LyX has done the same with your document, automatically; the moment you selected double sided pages, in your document settings.