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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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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What are the strengths and weaknesses of KOMA-Script and memoir?
To make a professional book layout, many people suggest to use either KOMA-Script or memoir. Let me know the strengths and weaknesses of each please.
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How to customize headers and footers?
I'd like to modify the contents of my headers and footers - e.g., to display the current chapter and/or section title or to change the pagination alignment. How can I do that? I've noticed 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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Increasing paragraph indentation in KOMA script
The default parindent in KOMA scrartcl is too small for me. I remember reading somewhere that just changing \parindent directly is not wise, since it also affects other things (like itemize etc). And ...
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Create caption without float AND without caption-package?
In the appendix of my thesis, there is a large number of tables and longtables which does not need to float, as they shall appear one after the other just how they fit on the pages (and it is no ...
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Most useful additions in KOMA-Script?
(Background: I'm a beginner who will mostly use LaTeX for university articles and reports, but no math. Also, as I reside in Canada, the German typography conventions, which I understand KOMA-Script ...
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How do I make pages which were “intentionally left blank”?
I have a scrbook document with an openright option, i.e. every once in a while a blank left page appears in the document. Not that I really want to do this, but how could I include the infamous "This ...
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Section title gradient
Background
Writing a manual using KOMA Script. The default fonts are perfect and should not be changed.
Problem
KOMA Script produces the following section outline:
The desired outline looks ...
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Remove margins for title page
The scrbook class calculates margins automatically. For the title page of a book, I would like no margins at all, so that the text would be centered properly.
How can I disable all margins for the ...
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Contents in PDF bookmarks
I am using KOMA-Script (scrreprt) and hyperref.
The PDF bookmarks are generated nicely from the table of contents, but I would like an extra Contents bookmark to point to the table of contents itself ...
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What packages are incompatible with KOMA-Script?
Triggered by the question why should I not use the koma script classes results practically necessarily a consequence question: What packages are incompatible with KOMA-Script?
KOMA-Script offers ...
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Nicely force 66 characters per line
I would like to have "something" (a package, a trick, a macro, ...?) that makes it possible for me to nicely play with the margins (or the layout) in order to set the average or typical number of ...
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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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Extra space for numbered titles in table of contents
Background
A manual with chapters, sections, subsections, and sub-subsections. Using KOMA Script v2.
Problem
The spacing between the heading title and its number is too close to the number in some ...
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Why should I *not* use the KOMA-Script classes?
I've heard a lot of recommendations to use the KOMA-Script document classes in place of the base document classes. I appreciate that there is a lot of added functionality, and customisation is easier. ...
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Suppressing figure numbers in KOMA-Script captions
I am in the process of replacing the caption package with KOMA-Script in a long document. Where caption allows me to suppress the figure-number at the start of any caption by using \caption*{text}, I ...
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How do I add a Page X of Y in a KOMA-script class?
I saw the answers to a similar question, but the accepted answer won't take effect in a KOMA-script class.
\usepackage{lastpage}
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\cfoot{\thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
I am using scrartcl ...
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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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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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How to configure KOMA classes such that the bottom margin of a page equals its top margin?
I know that I could simply use the geometry package but is there a way to invoke that behaviour directly in the classes?
As far as I know, KOMA always tries to keep the bottom margin twice the size ...
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Appendix changes sections and figures numbering
I don't know how to face a strange behavior caused by the appendix package.
I'm using KOMA-Script book class and many other packages (see here: http://pastie.org/1728702)
When I add an appendix (not ...
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Replacing fancyhdr with scrpage2
I'm trying to reduce the number of packages I'm loading in my documents and I read on the KOMA documentation (and elsewhere) that it can define page styles better than fancyhdr. But each time I try to ...
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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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Overview of Margins in KOMA Script/TypeArea
I am looking for some dimensions associated to page layout using the KOMA Script classes. However, I find it very difficult to find the individual commands.
Does there exist something like such an ...
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Headers and page numbers in external borders
I am trying to recreate in *TeX the same aspect that you can see in the following picture showing a document that I created a while ago with MS Publisher.
As you can see, page numbers are rendered ...
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Different vertical spacing (parskip) between concurrent section titles and paragraphs
I'm trying to remove the spacing between section headings, but maintain the paragraph to section heading spacing.
Even though I set titlespacing before and after to *0, there is still spacing - quite ...
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How to put two minipages side-by-side, which use 100 % of the text width?
In draft-mode a black marker indicates that the reserved space is too low. This also appears in the following example, but it shouldn't. How can I put two minipages exactly side-by-side?
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Rhythm: different values for parskip and baselineskip in scrartcl
I am writing some small demo files, each trying to implement a specific advice from Bringhurst's Elements of Typograhpic Style. He recommends to keep the vertical rhythm of the page, and to return to ...
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Lowercase small caps in section/subsection/…
I'm interested in setting the titles of section and more in lowercase small caps. And I don't know how to automatically achieve this.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\scshape}
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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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Why does setting the paper size with KOMA-Script require TikZ?
Maybe I am just too tired, but I simply can't explain what is going on.
The file
\documentclass[a5paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
produces A4 sized ...
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Can I put a logo in the header of a twoside document?
I would like to include a graphics file with a logo in the header of all pages of a twoside document (left and right side). The logo should be left-justified on the left side and right-justified on ...
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scrreprt - add levels below \subparagraph
I have to write my thesis in (German) law and we usually use a very nested headline system.
I use scrreprt and have these levels:
(part)
chapter
section
subssection
subsubsection
paragraph
...
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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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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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Difference between \paragraph and \subparagraph in scrreprt?
I'm using scrreprt for writing and (at least for me without any typographic education) I don't see any difference between a section typed as \paragraph or \subparagraph.
My questions:
Is there a ...
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How to uppercase heavily customised sections (sectsty+fontspec)?
I am trying to customise the aspect of a scrbook to look like a book I have.
In my case, sections should be formatted as follows: the font face should be Conques Demi, the font size 26 pt, the font ...
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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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Can't shift/position \chapter with titlesec?
Somehow I my attempt to change the placement of \chapter seems not to work. I would like to that my chaptertitle begins right at the top of the page. Do I need to change the plain pagestyle?
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Customize spacing between section number and its caption?
is there any chance to customize the spacing between the (sub)section number and its title in every appearance in the document? That is, in any header or footer as well as in the table of contents and ...
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What's the right way to change display of chapter headings?
I am using the scrbook class and I would like to achieve the following effect for my chapter headings:
####
#####
###
###
##### Name of chapter
How would I do this best? Is ...
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Mark key-value class options as used
I have written a wrapper for the scrartcl class in the following way:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{mycls}[2012/08/23]
\RequirePackage{kvoptions}
\DeclareStringOption{title}
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\endnote inside \author tag
I have a rather complicated document of the {scrartcl} class, derived from the .tex file I downloaded off this page http://www.howtotex.com/templates/template-added-two-column-color-article/
I try to ...
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Numbering sections as 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc
I use scrartcl. I would like the sections to be numbered 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc. I would like subsections etc. to be numbered 1A.1, 1A.2, etc. the idea is to present theory in the "A" sections and ...
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No numberings, no numbers (section, chapter, subsection etc.) in header?
I am using scrpage2 with scrbook. I would like to have no numbers or numbering of sections, chapters, etc.. in the header. How can I achieve that?
I have the following example:
\documentclass[12pt, ...
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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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How to change font size of longtable-lines without changing font size of caption?
I'd like to change the font size of all contents of a longtable to footnotesize. However the rest of the document and also the caption (!) shall be (stay) in normal size.
(pdflatex is used)
How can I ...
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Force KOMA-Script title to fill whole page
I’m using KOMA-Script (scrreprt) and its excellent set of macros to define a rich title page:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage[showframe,pass]{geometry}
\subject{Subject}
\title{Title}
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Page number in outer margin affects vertical ruler
I adapted the idea from here to place the page numbers in the outer margin. However, by doing so, the vertical ruler disappears. I first thought that adjusting the horizontal spacing parameters for ...
