geometrymarginparmargins
The following MWE gives me a margin that is always on the right.
Is there a way to have the margin always on the left?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{geometry,lipsum}
\geometry{
a4paper,
left=24.8mm,
top=27.4mm,
headsep=2\baselineskip,
textwidth=107mm,
marginparsep=8.2mm,
marginparwidth=49.4mm,
textheight=49\baselineskip,
headheight=\baselineskip,
twoside,
asymmetric,
showframe,
}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction}
\lipsum%
\end{document}
After several comments the problem seems to be rather on the side of createspace. There is a package available on github, that was made for creating books with LaTeX for publishing on createspace. Hopefully this helps: https://github.com/aginiewicz/createspace/blob/master/createspace.sty
Reading the package contents is seems like
\usepackage[size=pocket]{createspace}
is better than all the geometry-stuff. Page size will be calculated automatically. In addition you might also want to play with the additional options trim and bleed.
Making the borders visible
Add showframe when you are loading the package geometry, then you can see for yourself:
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
This picture shows your settings on a A4-page:
As you can see, the marginpar is leaking outside of your original dimensions, to remove it, add marginpar=0cm in your geometry-settings.
You get three times a page 1 in the front matter: in the report class the titlepage environment which is used also by abstract resets the page number to 1.
I suggest you to use the book class with its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, with \chapter{\abstractname} for the abstract in the front matter.
However also the report class can be used, after patching the relevant commands; I show only the important parts, add the rest to suit. It's probably better to \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} for setting the page parameters and \usepackage{setspace} for the interline spacing.
Remember the \clearpage command before \pagenumbering{arabic}.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
%%% PATCHES %%%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch `titlepage` not to reset the page number
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\endtitlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
% Patch `abstract` so that it shows the page number
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\titlepage}{\titlepage\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
%%% END PATCHES %%%
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{titlepage}
abc
\end{titlepage}
\begin{abstract}
dddd
\end{abstract}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage %%%%% <---- IMPORTANT
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{}
\chapter{A}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can set a wider inner width (e.g.
inner=70mm) and use\reversemarginparto print the margin text on the left.