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Asymmetrical layout in two-sided document

I use two-sided document mode in Book class KOMA Script. It works well in the sense that the ToC, chapters, titles starts from the odd pages. Exactly we I need in a book. In a recent book I need to ...
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KOMA-Script: Adjust text region based on header height

I'd like to put an image into the headline using scrpage2, but the text runs through the image, because the height of the headline seems not to be adjusted. The KOMA-Script documentation doesn't seem ...
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Set margins of A3 landscape site with KOMA-Script [closed]

in my A4 document, I inserted few a3 landscape pages for extra large graphics, using the \KOMAOptions-command. Unfortunately, the margins of the resulting A3 page are quite large, and I wonder how to ...
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LaTeX CV, change pagenumber position

I am preparing my CV in germany using the currvita Package. Unfortunally the pagenumbers on the bottom of the page are not really at the bottom of the page. There is something like 5 cm between the ...
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margin note left of an equation? [closed]

How is it possible to place a margin note left of an equation? I'm using scrartcl from KOMAScript. I set \reversemarginpar, then I tried with \marginnote from the package marginnote and also with ...
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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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KOMA-Script unequal left/right margin

I'm using the following header \documentclass[fontsize=11pt]{scrbook} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts,hyperref} \begin{document} \large %%% Header %%% \title{My Title} \author{John J. Johnson} ...
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Changing text area for Table of Contents in Koma Script

My friend is just about to submit her Diplomarbeit (German M.Sc.) and she bumped into a tiny corner of Koma-Script. The Table of Contents was just a tiny bit too long. Thus, one chapter was forced ...
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Increasing left margins when using scrbook with geometry

I am producing a very large book and need to shift the pages just a little to the right because of excess content generated in the left margin. I cannot have it set both margins bigger as the problem ...
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KOMA-Script footer margins

I am doing one-page documents with title and I need more space so all text can be put on that page. I achieve this by \typearea{12}. What happens is that the footer margin gets absurdly large (say, ...
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scrbook margin - ratio between top and bottom is wrong

I use the following document class \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{scrbook} with default header and footer (chapter/section in header and the page number in the footer) My problem is, that ...
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BCOR not part of paper dimensions

First of all: This is my first attempt using to the KOMA-classes. It seems to me that the binding correction is not taken into account in what I am trying right now. If I understand typearea right, ...
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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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Combine geometry and KOMA-Script’s DIV calculation (or: Make \newgeometry only set the explictitly given values)

I wonder if it is possible to combine geometry and the type area calculation of KOMA-Script. I’d like to use the calculated area but set (e.g.) the top margin to 1cm, without touching the other ...
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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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Specifying margin width manually

I'm trying to write my CV in LaTeX. I'm using a template which I got on-line. But the margins are huge. I need the top and bottom margin to be only 1 inch. The LaTeX code is: \documentclass[a4paper, ...
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scrbook page numbers margin problem

I was looking for the setting to adjust the vertical margin of the page numbers in the scrbook class but haven't found anything. I want to have them "nearer" to the page margin. ...
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problem with scrpage2 and coloured borders

I'm trying to do this \usepackage{scrpage2} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows} \usetikzlibrary{calc} %\usetikzlibrary{intersections} %\tikzset{variable/.default=} ...
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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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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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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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885 views

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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How to define a custom PDF page size without margins and header/footer? KOMAscript

I want to create a PDF file with pdflatex which has a custom page size: \pdfpagewidth=680.6pt \pdfpageheight=441.0pt and which will be used completely for typesetting (no margins, no header or ...
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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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KOMA handling of even/odd pages

I don't know if this is a bug or a configuration option that I've missed, but I've just noticed that in my document, KOMA script is putting odd pages on the right and even on the left, and yet the ...
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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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pdfx , trim size and margins

I'm using scrbook with forced margins and pdfx to produce PDF/X-1a compliant documents for the publisher. pdfx resizes the document and puts the trimed document in the bottom left corner. I'm not ...
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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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Make more lines fit on the page in the scrreprt class

Good to see this: "Documents built on scrreprt are highly customizable" (Stefan Kottwitz in his answer How to customize the standard report template). My question: I want to make the top and bottom ...
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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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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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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.