Page Layout ⇒ book openright specified but not working

[hfish]

hi everyone

i'm writing my master thesis with latex, and i found a very strange problem

here's the first lines of my thesis

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twoside,openright]{book}
\usepackage[printonlyused,footnote]{acronym}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[standard]{frontespizio}

as you can see it is a book document with the openright option... unfortunately, this does not work, and page margins are places in the inverse manner

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-nifo ... DhzeTdDNlk here you can find a 4 page preview containin the toc al lof

why this strange behavior? how can i solve?

thanks
luca

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Luca,

welcome to the board!

Please don't post links to externally hosted documents. You can attach the PDF (or other files) to a forum post. Would you be so kind to attach it? So we can see and download it without having to rely on external sources.

Regarding the problem: that's the expected behavior. Just open a book, usually the inner margin is smaller than the outer margin. To the reason - just imagine an open book and look at the white space: left margin, two (!) inner margins, right margin. To have equal white space, the inner margin must be half of the outer margin.

Could it be that you would like to add some extra inner margin for a binding correction, if you expect to loose space by a binding? Tacking together, stapling, stitching, glueing, ... some can cost different space, some do not, it's just not predefined.

Stefan

[hfish]

Hi Luca,

welcome to the board!

Please don't post links to externally hosted documents. You can attach the PDF (or other files) to a forum post. Would you be so kind to attach it? So we can see and download it without having to rely on external sources.

my bad, file attached

Regarding the problem: that's the expected behavior. Just open a book, usually the inner margin is smaller than the outer margin. To the reason - just imagine an open book and look at the white space: left margin, two (!) inner margins, right margin. To have equal white space, the inner margin must be half of the outer margin.

not sure i'm following you... i need my thesis work to semi-professionaly rebinded. normally i would expect left and right margins to be of the same size, ish... that means that the border that is going to be binded needs to be a little more than the other one. more specifically, on a right page, that is binded on the left side, i expect left margin to be a little more than the right one. on my example it happens the exact opposite, and this will result in having the text very close to the binding ad with a lot of space on the right side...

Could it be that you would like to add some extra inner margin for a binding correction, if you expect to loose space by a binding? Tacking together, stapling, stitching, glueing, ... some can cost different space, some do not, it's just not predefined.

Stefan

ok, i just assumed that the openright option would have adjusted margins too, other than placing initial chapter pages on a right page.

new question, then

how can i add margins so that the binding process won't cause troubles?

thanks

luca

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I prefer the typearea package for designing the page layout which cares for binding correction too. However, if you would like to specify the margins yourself, I recommend using the geometry package, which takes a binding correction value as a parameter, such as

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\usepackage[bindingoffset=5mm]{geometry}

or specifying all margins you like, and more, such as

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\usepackage[bindingoffset=1cm, left=1.5cm, right=3cm,
  top=2cm, bottom=3cm]{geometry}

Stefan

[localghost]

normally i would expect left and right margins to be of the same size, ish... that means that the border that is going to be binded needs to be a little more than the other one. more specifically, on a right page, that is binded on the left side, i expect left margin to be a little more than the right one. on my example it happens the exact opposite, and this will result in having the text very close to the binding ad with a lot of space on the right side.[…]

In a two-sided document we talk of inner and outer margins, not of left and right. Perhaps a Wikipedia article will help you on in matters of page construction [1].

If you need to specify a binding correction or the page dimensions in general, take a look at the geometry package to construct an appropriate type area.

By the way, in the book document class the options openright and twoside are the default setting, thus don't need to be given explicitly.

[1] Canons of page construction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[hfish]

thanks to the both of you, using the geometry package solved my problem like a charm!

luca