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MoonKid
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KOMA-Script | Specific Page Layout

Post by MoonKid »

I know that using Arial as a font and specifing the page borders in centimeters is typographicly stupid. But it is the standard of my university. I have no choice!

In the past I used geometry for that. But it did some things that destroy my settings for the footline.

So how can I set the page borders in centimeters?

This is my sample code

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[paper=A4,pagesize=auto,12pt,footinclude=true,BCOR=0mm]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xltxtra} % lädt wiederum fontspec, was wiederum xunicode lädt
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new]{german}
% Schriftart Arial
\setmainfont{Arial}
% Kopf- und Fußzeilen
\usepackage[footsepline]{scrpage2}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\recalctypearea
% Seitenränder
%\usepackage[left=25mm, right=25mm, top=25mm, bottom=20mm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\cfoot{\pagemark}
\ofoot{yyyy-mm-dd}
\ifoot{Author X}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
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cgnieder
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KOMA-Script | Specific Page Layout

Post by cgnieder »

One shouldn't mix KOMA-Script's layout options with geometry. Since you need a fixed layout you should set all options with the latter:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xltxtra} % lädt wiederum fontspec, was wiederum xunicode lädt
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new]{german}
% Schriftart Arial
% \setmainfont{Arial}
% Kopf- und Fußzeilen
\usepackage[footsepline]{scrpage2}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\recalctypearea
% Seitenränder
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\cfoot{\pagemark}
\ofoot{yyyy-mm-dd}
\ifoot{Author X}
\usepackage[
paper=a4paper,
left=25mm,
right=25mm,
top=25mm,
bottom=20mm,
includefoot,
foot=\baselineskip,
bindingoffset=0mm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
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I take it the question is answered? I took the liberty of marking it as such...
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