Page Layout ⇒ KOMA-Script | Center Page in two-sided Layout

[yngwi]

Hi,

For my master thesis I'm using the scrreprt document class from KOMA-Script in two-sided mode. I will use this to print the paper. Now I have the following question: is it possible to change the margins, so that they are similar to the single page mode? I would like to change this for the ebook version of my thesis which I have to submit to my university. Its content should be equal to the printed one, so I have to include the empty pages of the printed thesis. Because of this I cannot just use the single page layout. Is this possible somehow? I looked at the KOMA-Script documentation but could not find anything. A possible solution was the use of the geometry package where it is possible to change the horizontal margin from 1:2 to 1:1, but the geometry package changes the rest of the layout and I like the default KOMA layout better.


Thanks for helping me,
Daniel

Example with documentclass from my file:

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\documentclass[listof=totoc, a4paper, 12pt, titlepage, twoside, openright]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[blindtext]
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Daniel,

welcome to the board!

Did you also consider that people may read also ebooks in two-sided mode? For example, with the Adobe Reader I can click View / Page Display / Two-up to see it two-sided. Have a look if possible. It's useful for example on wide screens, which are common today (16:9), or on my tablet when I turn it to landscape orientation. Specifically in that case the original margins would be better, which fits the requirement that the content should be equal to the printed version.

Stefan

[yngwi]

Hi Daniel,

welcome to the board!

Did you also consider that people may read also ebooks in two-sided mode? For example, with the Adobe Reader I can click View / Page Display / Two-up to see it two-sided. Have a look if possible. It's useful for example on wide screens, which are common today (16:9), or on my tablet when I turn it to landscape orientation. Specifically in that case the original margins would be better, which fits the requirement that the content should be equal to the printed version.

Stefan

Hi,
thanks for your input. I'm quite undecided. I was mainly influenced by my own experience. I read most ebooks on my cell phone, where only one page can be displayed while still being usable. Of course, this might not be the most usual use case. The best way would probably be if I would also provide my text as an epub file, if somebody prefers to read it this way? Are there ways to output a latex file as such a file (especially the way footnotes are displayed would have to be changed)?
Best wishes,
Daniel

[localghost]

[…] I looked at the KOMA-Script documentation but could not find anything. […]

Hard to believe since Section 2.6 (on p. 36, English version of the user guide) introduces the options for twoside mode.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[yngwi]

[…] I looked at the KOMA-Script documentation but could not find anything. […]

Hard to believe since Section 2.6 (on p. 36, English version of the user guide) introduces the options for twoside mode.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

Thanks a lot for pointing me to the right document. I was referring to this document, which was obviously wrong. Your solution works like a charm, although I'm not sure anymore, if I should use it after the comment from Stefan_K.
Best wishes,
Daniel

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Daniel,

actually, I guess people rarely read in two-side mode. I needs work to switch that on and it's probably easier to always read continuously downwards than changing from the left side bottom to a right side top. I don't see a problem to change into typical one-side, i.e. symmetric margins. Today ebook readers have only one side, to it's a good reason to change.

If you would like to go the ebook way further, a few thoughts:

• I would not waste expensive display space for margins - typically there's already a "hardware margin", so I would choose 0 margin, or hope that good e-reading software does the cropping.
• I don't consider ebooks to require page per page layout. It could be a single page continuously scrolling down until the end. No need for typical problems with page breaks, which are a historical requirement of paper pages.

Stefan

[yngwi]

Hi Daniel,

actually, I guess people rarely read in two-side mode. I needs work to switch that on and it's probably easier to always read continuously downwards than changing from the left side bottom to a right side top. I don't see a problem to change into typical one-side, i.e. symmetric margins. Today ebook readers have only one side, to it's a good reason to change.

If you would like to go the ebook way further, a few thoughts:

• I would not waste expensive display space for margins - typically there's already a "hardware margin", so I would choose 0 margin, or hope that good e-reading software does the cropping.
• I don't consider ebooks to require page per page layout. It could be a single page continuously scrolling down until the end. No need for typical problems with page breaks, which are a historical requirement of paper pages.

Stefan

For now I will probably just use the twoside=semi option, as I would like to have my thesis versions as similar to each other as possible. However, after I submit them to the university, I will maybe use the text to publish it as a "real book", and there I probably will create a proper ebook.

Thanks a lot for your help!