First of all I am new to using Tex so please excuse any obvious things which will not be included in this question. But to the point:
I am using LyX 2.0.6 (with Miktex 2.9). I am writing a thesis in polish language. I use Koma Script book class. And I base my thesis on an example thesis included with Lyx. Each chapter is on a different branch and in a different file which is then included to the master file.
The problem is: When i create a pdf from a "chapter file" everything is ok but when I create it from a master file, the page size is visibly smaller (there is a lot more space between the text and page borders on each side). I am aiming for A4 paper size.
As far as I can see there are no differences in preamble of a single chapter and the whole thesis.
I tried specifying paper size in document class and using geometry package. Nothing helps.
I am aware that above information may be not enough to help so if anything is missing please write what and I will add it.
Single chapter preamble example here paper size is ok:
%% LyX 2.0.6 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,czech,greek,italian,polish,intoc,bibliography=totoc,index=totoc,BCOR10mm,captions=tableheading,titlepage,fleqn,pagesize,a4paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7,latin9,latin2]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{captionpos=b,
frame=single}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{ifsym}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage[unicode=true,
bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true,bookmarksopen=true,bookmarksopenlevel=1,
breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={Your title},
pdfauthor={Your name},
pdfpagelayout=OneColumn, pdfnewwindow=true, pdfstartview=XYZ, plainpages=false}
\usepackage{breakurl}
\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}{%
\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont\def\encodingdefault{LGR}}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\textgreek}[1]{\leavevmode{\greektext #1}}
\DeclareFontEncoding{LGR}{}{}
\DeclareTextSymbol{\~}{LGR}{126}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
% in case somebody want to have the label "Equation"
%\renewcommand{\eqref}[1]{Equation~(\negthinspace\autoref{#1})}
% that links to image floats jumps to the beginning
% of the float and not to its caption
\usepackage[figure]{hypcap}
\usepackage[paper=A4,pagesize]{typearea}
% the pages of the TOC is numbered roman
% and a pdf-bookmark for the TOC is added
\let\myTOC\tableofcontents
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
\frontmatter
\pdfbookmark[1]{\contentsname}{}
\myTOC
\mainmatter }
%------------caption handling---------------------
\usepackage[font={it}]{caption}
\renewcommand{\fnum@lstlisting}{Przykład kodu~\thefigure}
\renewcommand{\fnum@figure}{Ilustracja~\thefigure}
% makes caption labels bold
% for more info about these settings, see
% http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/doc/scrguien.pdf
\setkomafont{captionlabel}{\bfseries}
\setcapindent{1em}
%--------------------------------------------------
% enables calculations
\usepackage{calc}
%indent for the first paragraph after a title
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%enables dingbat symbols
\usepackage{pifont}
%centruje zawarto¶ć tabeli w przypadku laczonych wierszy
%\renewcommand{\multirowsetup}{\centering}
% fancy page header/footer settings
% for more information see section 9 of
% ftp://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{#1}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
% increases the bottom float placement fraction
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.5}
% avoids that floats are placed above its sections
\let\mySection\section\renewcommand{\section}{\suppressfloats[t]\mySection}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}
Master document, here paper size is not ok:
%% LyX 2.0.6 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,czech,english,greek,italian,polish,intoc,bibliography=totoc,index=totoc,BCOR10mm,captions=tableheading,titlepage,fleqn,pagesize,a4paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7,latin9,latin2]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{captionpos=b,
frame=single}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{ifsym}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{nomencl}
% the following is useful when we have the old nomencl.sty package
\providecommand{\printnomenclature}{\printglossary}
\providecommand{\makenomenclature}{\makeglossary}
\makenomenclature
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage[unicode=true,pdfusetitle,
bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true,bookmarksopen=true,bookmarksopenlevel=1,
breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
pdfpagelayout=OneColumn, pdfnewwindow=true, pdfstartview=XYZ, plainpages=false}
\usepackage{breakurl}
\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}{%
\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont\def\encodingdefault{LGR}}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\textgreek}[1]{\leavevmode{\greektext #1}}
\DeclareFontEncoding{LGR}{}{}
\DeclareTextSymbol{\~}{LGR}{126}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\@ifundefined{date}{}{\date{}}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
% in case somebody want to have the label "Equation"
%\renewcommand{\eqref}[1]{Equation~(\negthinspace\autoref{#1})}
% that links to image floats jumps to the beginning
% of the float and not to its caption
\usepackage[figure]{hypcap}
\usepackage[pass]{geometry}
% the pages of the TOC is numbered roman
% and a pdf-bookmark for the TOC is added
\let\myTOC\tableofcontents
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
\frontmatter
\pdfbookmark[1]{\contentsname}{}
\myTOC
\mainmatter }
%------------caption handling---------------------
\usepackage[font={it}]{caption}
\renewcommand{\fnum@lstlisting}{Przykład kodu~\thefigure}
\renewcommand{\fnum@figure}{Ilustracja~\thefigure}
% makes caption labels bold
% for more info about these settings, see
% http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/doc/scrguien.pdf
\setkomafont{captionlabel}{\bfseries}
\setcapindent{1em}
%--------------------------------------------------
% enables calculations
\usepackage{calc}
%indent for the first paragraph after a title
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%enables dingbat symbols
\usepackage{pifont}
%centruje zawarto¶ć tabeli w przypadku laczonych wierszy
%\renewcommand{\multirowsetup}{\centering}
% fancy page header/footer settings
% for more information see section 9 of
% ftp://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{#1}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
% increases the bottom float placement fraction
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.5}
% avoids that floats are placed above its sections
\let\mySection\section\renewcommand{\section}{\suppressfloats[t]\mySection}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\publishers{\noindent ...\\
...\\
...\\
\inputencoding{latin9}\foreignlanguage{english}{\vspace{-3cm}
}}
\author{...}
\title{...}
\begin{onehalfspace}
\lowertitleback{\noindent ...\\
...\\
...}
\end{onehalfspace}
\date{...}
\maketitle
\cleardoublepage{}
\lhead{\rightmark}
\rhead[\leftmark]{}
\lfoot[\thepage]{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot[]{\thepage}
\tableofcontents{}
\cleardoublepage{}
\pagestyle{plain}
\include{Summary}
\cleardoublepage{}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead[\chaptername~\thechapter]{\rightmark}
\include{chapter-1}
\include{chapter-2}
\include{chapter-3}
\include{chapter-4}
\cleardoublepage{}
\lhead[]{Acknowledgments}
\rhead[Acknowledgments]{}
\cleardoublepage{}
\lhead[]{\rightmark}
\rhead[\leftmark]{}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{bibliography}
\cleardoublepage{}
\lhead[]{Nomenclature}
\rhead[Nomenclature]{}
\printnomenclature[2.5cm]{}
\end{document}
NEW: After adding this to the chapter preamble:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,czech,english,greek,italian,polish,intoc,bibliography=totoc,index=totoc,BCOR10mm,captions=tableheading,titlepage,fleqn,pagesize,a4paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\paperwidth}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\paperheight}
this single chapter now looks like the master document. So now I don't know which is correct A4 format. I likeed the old chapter size better.
paper dimensions are 210mm x 297mm, master document (and now single chapter) has text area : ~136mm x 227mm, old single chapter text area: ~152mm x ~253mm
