novoid/LaTeX-KOMA-template

Modify margins

kugulus opened this issue · 4 comments

kugulus commented

First of all: Thank you for this great template, it's really useful!

But I would like to modify the margins, because in my opinion they are a bit too large. My problem is, that I can't find out how to do so... Could you help me?

Thank you!

novoid commented

I recommend you to read chapter two of the KOMA documentation: http://ctan.org/pkg/koma-script

And I recommend you to re-think your decision since there are pretty good typographic reasons for the current margin space :-)

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stefanbschneider commented

This answers the question quite well: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/35820/52398

Set DIV in document class, eg,

\documentclass[fontsize=13pt,DIV=14]{scrreprt}

Larger values lead to larger text areas and smaller margins.

Default for 11pt is DIV=10 in KOMA documentation, but the calculated value in this template is very different and leads to much larger margins!

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stefanbschneider commented

Watchout, changing DIV broke my document: Now figures and tables overlap sometimes!

novoid commented

I recommend to leave the defaults or use a specific package like savetrees which clearly aims at use-cases where legibility is no criteria any more.