On 7.12.07, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> William Seager schrieb:
>> But here is where I am confused. In my document the
>> odd numbered pages have a small left margin / large
>> right margin whereas the even numbered pages have
>> a small right margin / large left margin.
> This is correct. Look at some of your books, they have also the large
> margin on the non-binding side. To get more space for binding, you can add
> some as binding corrections. Binding correction is for example provided
> when you use the document class "book (koma)" instead of plain "book". Then
> add this to the document options to get 5 mm more space:
> BCOR=5mm
If not using the KOMA classes, you can still do the paper layout with the
typearea package, e.g. put in the latex preamble:
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[BCOR8.25mm]{typearea}
This is well documented in the KOMA guide "scrguien.pdf" (or "scrguide.pdf"
in German).
GM
