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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why doesn't parskip=half work together with fontenc in bibliographies?
If \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} is used and parskip=half is set:
Else (either \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} isn't used or parskip=half isn't set):
I consider the second one the correct style. Why is ...
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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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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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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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Distance between chapter title and text
In my scrreprt I've changed distance between paragraphs with \setlength{\parskip}{9pt}. But \parskip changes also distance between chapter title and the paragraph.
How can I change distance between ...
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KOMA warning about ToC
Lately I've noticed the following warning from KOMA when I compile my documents:
Class scrreprt Warning: \float@addtolists detected!
(scrreprt) You should use the features of package ...
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Which one is it: a4paper or paper=a4?
I'm using XeLaTeX mostly, and I never know what to put into \documentclass[]{}.
Usually I use something like \documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{scrartcl}. But I never know whether it's a4paper or paper=a4. ...
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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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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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Making one margin bigger to allow margin notes in KOMA script
I want to add margin notes using KOMA script's \marginline. I don't want to get into the tricky business of manually setting a lot of typearea lengths myself, I just want to make the outside margin a ...
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Full page image as title page
Background
Wrote a technical manual in LyX. The technical manual currently has two parts:
Cover image (PDF)
Manual text (PDF)
Problem
When merging the two PDF files (with GhostScript or other ...
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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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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 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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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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Two-sided Document Wrong Margins
Background
Wrote a manual in LyX. The PDF is two-sided. Using KOMA Script v2. The pages are 8.5" x 11".
Problem
The spacing on the margins is not printer-friendly, it is reversed:
Since this ...
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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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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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How do I set the margins in a KOMA-Script class?
I am writing my resume (using the currvita package) within a scrartcl document class from KOMA-Script. How do I set the margins? I think the text width is a bit too narrow for me.
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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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Why is parskip=half messing up the spacing in mdframed?
without parskip:
parskip=half:
\documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{thmtools}
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Change the title size in scrartcl
I'd like to use a smaller title. I'm using the scrartcl documentclass from the KOMA-Script bundle. I can change it's color font but not it's size.
\setkomafont{title}{\normalfont\bfseries\small}
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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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Printing on A4 - standard classes vs. KOMA-Script classes
As I'm located in Europe the standard paper size is A4. So far I was normally using either \documentclass[a4paper]{article} or even simply \documentclass{article}. Recently I spotted sections (1.1) ...
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What does \secdef do?
The definition of the chapter command in KOMA-class scrbook is:
\newcommand\chapter{\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi
\thispagestyle{\chapterpagestyle}%
\global\@topnum\z@
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Odd vertical gap with multicol, scrreprt and parskip=half
I'm having a weird vertical gap in one of my documents, which only is there when I use multicol together with \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrreprt}.
Minimal example
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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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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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Doublespacing is moving my page number
I'm using the KOMA-Script report scrreprt to typeset my PhD thesis and the graduate school requires that the main text be double spaced and that the page number be in the top right. When I enable ...
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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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Which package is best/easiest for a TeX newbie to lay out a book for print?
This question may be a little general and is subjective, but I am asking because I am not sure where my (limited) time should be invested for the problem I have to solve (I'll detail that in a ...
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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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How to set the baseline for headers with scrpage2?
I want the left and the right header to have the same baseline, regardless of the height of the content they yield. To demonstrate this, assume
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
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Section open right in scrbook
Using scrbook, I would like sections to open on a new odd page, like chapters do. How can I achieve that?
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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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How to place the chapter number behind the chapter title in KOMA script
I have the following layout for my chapter title and number:
I reached this using the following code:
\renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%
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How to avoid empty space at the end of a page when using scrlttr2?
I use this class definition in the preamble for typesetting letters:
\documentclass[12pt,ngerman,foldmarks=true,fromalign=right,fromrule=afteraddress,
parskip=half, pagenumber=no,DIV=15]{scrlttr2}
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classicthesis and scrheadings
When using classicthesis I feel that the spacedlowsmallcaps (provided by classicthesis) take too much control over my typography. I've been able to tweak the section titles to have a capital letter in ...
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Variability in the line spacing of paragraph breaks?
Don't know how to describe my problem properly, but there seems to be a variablility in the line spacing of paragraph breaks, with my settings or generally or anything. Since I don't know what is ...
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Underfull vbox and typearea warnings with Koma-Script and a5paper
I have this in the preamble:
\documentclass[a5paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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