KOMA-Script is a bundle of classes and packages replacing the LaTeX standard classes and providing additional features with emphasis on typography and versatility.
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Change \headheight for a \pagestyle
I have a document class that auto generates header from some user input. The problem is the first page should have a different page header than the others and the headline can be multi line. So ...
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Remove space before chapter title - with KOMA script (scrbook)
I am using the KOMA script document class scrbook. Is there any way to make the chapter headings appear exactly at the top of the page body just by using KOMA (without using titlesec, fancyhdr, ...
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KOMA script: “bad” italic in page header
Because of trouble with upright Greek characters, I decided to switch from latin modern to Bitstream Charter (even though I don't really like it). It seems that together with the mathdesign package, ...
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New line and no indent after \paragraph?
I tried to use a \paragraph-environment, but I do want a new line after the title and no indent in the first textline.
New line is easy, but the first line is indented even if I use \noindent, ...
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Margins too wide using a5paper Koma-Script option
This is my preamble:
\documentclass[a5paper, DIV=classic, 12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,graphicx,xunicode,color,lettrine}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Ligatures={Rare}, ...
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own class with twocolumns activated in \ifdefined for KOMA and xelatex
I want to do something like in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1465665/passing-command-line-arguments-to-latex-document.
For better explanation I'll show a minimal running example:
My test.cls:
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Put section and page numbers in the margin with KOMA Script
Using the scrartcl document class, I would like to put the section number into the page margin, as is seen for example in the famous l2tabu document. That should be easily possible with KOMA Script, ...
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Is there a \lowertitleback for \extratitle?
I am using the koma package to typeset my thesis and was wondering if there is something like "\lowerextratitleback", i.e. the analog of \lowertitleback for the extra title page which can be set using ...
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How to include abstract into titlepage?
I don't want to have the abstract on a separate page but rather under the title. Also I then want to end the page and don't begin with the actual document.
This is my minimal example:
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New paragraph without indent in KOMA Script
This might be the stupidest question ever asked on TeX.sx, but I recently changed my paragraphing style and now run into problems. Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
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Remove dots from TOC, have page numbers right after titles
When looking for some inspiration for how to come up with a template for my thesis, I came across the wonderful classicthesis package. Since I'm working on some very progressive material, however, I ...
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Giving headlines a background color spanning across the entire typearea
I posted this at stackoverflow and got redirected here. This does indeed look like a better place to ask.
I would like to decorate my headlines (section, subsection, etc.) by adding a background ...
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reduce vspace after section header
I am currently using the the scrartcl document class and glossaries for acronyms:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,headsepline,notitlepage,parskip=half]{scrartcl}
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How to typeset definitions with several paragraphs in the KOMA classes
The KOMA classes do not use vertical inter-paragraph spacing with some good arguments (see page 50 of the scrguide).
I defined an environment for definitions with the amsthm package using their ...
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Add \numberline in TOC for part with scrbook
I'm using the scrbook document class for a publication. In order to properly format the part entries in the table of contents, I would like to write an entry like
\contentsline ...
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Load package after other package with \AfterPackage
I want to group packages together (in the real document, I load many more packages) and want to solve the sorting of the packages with commands like \AfterPackage from KOMA-Script.
I am using this ...
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Overfull vbox with scrbook and setspacing
The following MWE gives me a lot of badbox warnings Overfull \vbox (1.39674pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [] with always the same value of 1.39674pt.
It seems to be related to the ...
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book vs. report vs. article document class
What are the main differences between the book, the report, and the article document classes? If possible, include the differences within the KOMA-Script classes.
The visual difference for the ...
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report/book: how to customize \part look (the page itself and listing in ToC)?
I was wondering how I can 'split' up a latex document into 'volumes'. The final TOC should read something like this:
Volume 1 2
1. chapter 1 of volume 1 ...
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How can I set the vertical margin of my chapter headings?
I currently don't like the typesetting of a document. In my two sided document, I want that the chapter headings not have a vertical space before their appearance.
The text on the second page should ...
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Incompatibilities between KOMA-Script and titlesec
This is a complementary question to About memoir and titlesec incompatibility. The titlesec manual states (p. 2) that the package
[...] works with the standard classes and with many others, ...
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Running figure numbering
I want to use running figure numbering so I used a trick form this website http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=running-nos.
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
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Formatting of multiline chapter headings using KOMA
I need (publisher requirement) to format the chapter headings in a document in such a way, that the chapter number is aligned with the text on the page, but if the chapter is longer than one line, the ...
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Fixed marginpars with gray background in KOMA-Script
I am an newbie looking to achieve a sort of two column effect with my LaTeX report - I am using LaTeX KOMA-script as a base.
I want my margin to appear in a different background color, (say) gray, ...
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Declaring layers causes tikzpicture to disappear
I'm using a picture environment to \put some tikzpictures at places within the page from within \setkomavar{firsthead}. When I declare some pgf layers like so:
\pgfdeclarelayer{background}
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KOMA-Script: Chapter Number as a Word
Currently I am using scrreprt for my document with the option chapterprefix=true. I wish for my chapters prefixes to be of the form: "CHAPTER ONE" as opposed to "Chapter 1". Now, I know that ...
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Custom reference field line in scrlttr2
Following on from a previous question, I took the route of co-opting the location field to display some invoice related information in the top right corner of the letter. Now I'd like to do something ...
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How to position the reference fields line in scrlttr2
TeX newbie. I want to position the reference fields line in scrlttr2 to where the "supplemental data" is usually displayed (in the top right hand corner, below the header).
I figured it would be as ...
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scrlttr2: How can I remove the white space between “address” and “Subject:” line?
How may I remove excessive white space at the top, between my address in top-left, and the Subject: line?
\documentclass{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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setkomafont with uppercase that works robustly
I know that \setkomafont is supposed to deal with switching fonts but sometimes instead of switching font, I'd like to switch to uppercase. I've not found a way to do this reliably. This breaks:
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How to indent the graphics caption
I am writing my thesis in LaTeX with the document class scrreprt.
My problem is that I include a graphic whose description starts at the left side of the page, which is usually nice, but in my case I ...
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scrreprt .cls is missing
I get the following error on TeXShop when trying to compile:
./thesis.tex:2: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
! LaTeX Error: File `scrreprt .cls' not found.
My .tex file looks the following:
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How to no-indent section headings in scrrprt table of contents?
Using the scrrprt class of Koma-Script with xelatex, I'd like to have my section entries in the table of contents appear without indenting. My current code is:
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How to reduce the margins
I am making a report using latex, it is looking fine but there is a really large space taken up by the margins. Here is the main tex file
\documentclass[fontsize=13pt]{scrreprt}
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Curious interaction between KOMA, fontenc and hyperref when using hidden glossary entries
In this question is asked how to hide single entries from my acronyms list. The solution works fine in the minimal example from that question. However, trying to use that solution in my actual ...
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Upper Case Page Header KOMA
I am trying change the page header in scrbook so that it contains upper case letters. To do so, I am using fancyhdr which gives me the required look for all the chapters.
Unfortunately there is a ...
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scrartcl: Remove page number on title page
I'm writing the abstract for my bachelor thesis. Therefore I use LaTeX.
Now I have the structure of my document, but it always prints me a page number on the page. It is only one page and instead of ...
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Different headheight for first page
I'm writing a document using the Koma-Script class scrartcl (3.09a).
I want to have a header and a footer on every page, but the header of the first page should be different from the others.
So ...
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KOMA-article: Page X of Y not showing in first page footer
(Warning: Question from newbie to LaTeX :-)
Using koma-article in Org-mode, I want to show "X of Y" in the footer of all pages. I followed the instructions in this post, and it works fine for pages 2 ...
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Change page margins for one single page inside the document
I am writing a document , A4, using KOMA-Scripts (scrbook) and inside my document i have a Flowchart which doesn't pass in portrait. I used
\KOMAoptions{paper=landscape}
\recalctypearea
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Remove dot-after-number in figure captions while keeping the dot in chapter/section captions
In my document (using KOMAScript and babel[ngerman]) I have various figures which get captions like "Abbildung 1: ...".
However, as soon as I add a \appendix to the document all those captions change ...
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Chapters only on even pages, sections without pagebreaks?
I'm having a few questions about KOMA script configuration and would love if you guys could help me out:
How can I make all chapters only appear on even pages?
How can I make all sections NOT have ...
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KOMA classes and \LoadClass
I want to create a document class based on a KOMA-Script class. If myclass.cls contains the following
\ProvidesClass{myclass}[2011/08/31]
\LoadClass[paper=a5]{scrartcl}
then compiling a document ...
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How to add a description (“precis”) to a toc entry with KOMA-Script class?
Using the KOMA-Script class I'ld like to add chapter descriptions to the table of contents to provide a short description of this chapter right in the TOC.
I've already found the "memoir" document ...
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Chapter title without number
Now that I have turned numbering on, \leftmark shows chapter title with number in my header. like
1 ChapterTitle
How do I remove the number?
these are my settings
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Spacing in headline between number and text
How do I change the spacing between the number and the title of a section? I would like to have the following:
1.(1cm space)Section name
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KOMA: Margin notes only on outer side of two-column document? [closed]
For some part of a two-column scrbook of mine, I need to actually get a three-column layout: Two columns text, and a third column with a table (or a boxed enumeration, that would work too).
Both ...
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KOMA-Script: change font of sectioning headings to serif
How to change the default KOMA-Script font that is used for chapter/section headings etc. to the Computer Modern font that is used in text body?
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\tableofcontents in twocolum document
I don't quite understand why \tableofcontents in a \twocolumn document yields only one column (or how to change that - ideally without including multicol just for the ToC...)?
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Remove dot after appendix numbering
I want my appendix section numbering to look like this
Appendix
A Section one
B Section two
I've figured out how to get the A and B (see question How to modify the appendix chapter numbering?). But ...
