Two-sided document: odd pages indentation

Azergoth · Post by **Azergoth** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:37 pm

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to get my document (thesis) formatted correctly: get the odd pages "right" and the even pages "left" (seen as a book).

My document class is "Article (standard Class with extra font sizes)" and I choose "Two-sided Document" in Page Layout.
When I compile the document, I see that the the odd pages are indented left, and the even pages are indented right. I would like to have it the other way...

I've commented out everything at the beginning of my document (page numbering, abstract, ...) to start directly with "paragraph 1" and the problem stays...
I've also tried to delete the latex preamble, but nothing...

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Post by **Johannes_B** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:45 pm

Use showframe to inspect the page layout. Everything is fine, the outer margins are about twice as wide as the inner, because the inner is there two times. So leftOuter = 2 times inner = rightOuter.

You can read more about this in chapter two of the KOMA-script manual.

If you need to set page margins, use package geometry. It also provides a showframe option.

Azergoth · Post by **Azergoth** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:58 pm

So this behavior is normal?

Post by **Johannes_B** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:18 pm

Azergoth · Post by **Azergoth** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:30 pm

Ok, thanks! sorry, I feel really stupid...

Post by **Johannes_B** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:41 pm

No need to feel that. Many people are confusing this.

As long as you know how to resolve the issue, everything will be fine ;-)

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:39 pm

If you thought it should be the other way round, perhaps you mean the space you would loose because of the binding. There are options BCOR (Koma-Script) and bindingoffset (geometry) for this. If the binding is corrected this way, it should be like Johannes said.

Stefan

Azergoth · Post by **Azergoth** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:59 pm

Stefan_K wrote:If you thought it should be the other way round, perhaps you mean the space you would loose because of the binding. There are options BCOR (Koma-Script) and bindingoffset (geometry) for this. If the binding is corrected this way, it should be like Johannes said.

Stefan

Yes, that's what I thought... I used \layout to check it, and the "space" I saw is the room for notes, I think.

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