Page Layout ⇒ Layout for Seminar Paper

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Hello,

I just started university and decided to graduate from Word for writing my papers, theses and so on.

But I have some problems with probably the most simple things. I got this template and I have to change the layout to the following criteria:

• Paper: DIN A4
• Margins: left: 2.5cm, right: 3cm, top: 2.5cm, bottom: 2.5cm
• Font: Serif font for example Times New Roman
• Font size: 12pt, 10pt for tables, footnotes etc.
• Spacing: 1 1/2 and 1 in footnotes
• Text has to be justified.

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% Präambel
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside, 
liststotoc,                     % Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis ins Inhaltsverzeichnis
bibtotoc,                       % Literaturverzeichnis ins Inhaltsverzeichnis aufnehmen
titlepage,                      % Titlepage-Umgebung statt \maketitle
headsepline,                    % horizontale Linie unter Kolumnentitel
%abstracton,                    % Überschrift beim Abstract einschalten, Abstract muss dazu in {abstract}-Umgebung stehen
DIV12,                          % auskommentieren, um den Seitenspiegel zu vergrößern
%BCOR6mm,                       % Bindekorrektur, die den Seitenspiegel um 6mm nach rechts verschiebt,
]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{ucs}                % Dokument in utf8-Codierung schreiben und speichern
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}    % ermöglicht die direkte Eingabe von Umlauten
\usepackage[english]{babel}     % deutsche Trennungsregeln und Übersetzung der festcodierten Überschriften
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        % Ausgabe aller zeichen in einer T1-Codierung (wichtig für die Ausgabe von Umlauten!)
\usepackage{graphicx}           % Einbinden von Grafiken erlauben
%\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage{amsfonts}
%\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathpazo}           % Einstellung der verwendeten Schriftarten
\usepackage{textcomp}           % zum Einsatz von Eurozeichen u. a. Symbolen
\usepackage{listings}           % Datstellung von Quellcode mit den Umgebungen {lstlisting}, \lstinline und \lstinputlisting
\usepackage{xcolor}             % einfache Verwendung von Farben in nahezu allen Farbmodellen
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}     % zur Erstellung des Abkürzungsberzeichnisses
\usepackage{fancyhdr}           % Zusatzpaket zur Gestaltung von Fuß und Kopfzeilen
\usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm, right=3cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}  % Hier die Seitenränder einstellen
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
%\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-\topskip}}
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-1.1cm}} % Vertikalerabstand top
 
 
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I used geometry to set the site layout to DIN A4 and to set the margins. For the 1 1/2 spacing I used \onehalfspacing. In the document class I have got 11pt because 12pt look far too big. For a serif font I used \rmfamily.

Are these changes correct? How do I use justified text and how can I use a font with the right size as in 12pt Times New Roman in Word?

[Namrod]

These solutions seem to be right. In LaTeX documents, the text is justified by default. You can use Times font with using the mathpmx package instead of the mathpazo one and then set the font size with \footnotesize, \tiny, \small, \\normalfont, \large, \Large, \huge or \Huge (from the smallest to the biggest size).

In order to know how to use a font, you can glance at the LaTeX Font Catalogue.

However I think it would be better to begin with more classical classes, such as article or report, only with options and packages you understand and you need.

Cheers !