[Tex/LaTex] KOMA handling of even/odd pages

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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 margins are configured so that the inside margins are less than the outside margins.

I didn't notice this before because I wasn't viewing my document in dual-page mode, but now that I've noticed it how can I change it so it gets the arrangement right?

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This is the way it should be for scrreprt and scrbook. You can control this feature with the twoside-option. See the KOMA-Script manual, pp. 31 ff. and Markus Kohms german article about type area construction.

\documentclass[twoside=false]{scrbook}% treat even and odd pages the same way
\documentclass[twoside=true]{scrbook}% different head/foot and margins on even and odd pages
\documentclass[twoside=semi]{scrbook}% different head/foot but same margins

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Unlike memoir, the KOMA-Script-classes do not add the functionality of dozens of packages to the LaTeX core - but the KOMA-additions are useful and extremely easy to handle. Roughly in order of the documentation:

Customizable type area with default values that also (contrary to the standard classes) work well for letter- and A4-paper,
Support for arbitrarily chosen font sizes (e.g. 10.5pt),
Ability to change font size mid-document,
Customization of the font attributes of many document elements,
Enhanced \maketitle features (e.g. \subtitle),
\addpart, \addchap, and \addsec commands producing unnumbered parts, chapters, and sections that are nevertheless included in the table of contents,
Options to include the bibliography, the index etc. in the table of contents,
parskip option that is more powerful than the package of the same name,
Configurable footnotes (including some features of the footmisc package),
Option open=left to always start chapters on left pages,
Consistent formatting of every "listofsomething" (e.g. "chapter gaps" in the "List of Listings"),
Lots of little things.

[Tex/LaTex] How to create different margins for odd and even pages

LaTeX uses different margins on odd and even pages only if the twoside option is activated in the \documentclass line.

With the geometry package it's fairly easy to adjust the page setup parameters. For example

\documentclass[a4paper,twoside]{article}

\usepackage[
  inner=<XX>pt,
  textwidth=345pt,
]{geometry}

would set the usual "oneside" textwidth. Choose the value for <XX>pt to suit your needs. Check the manual of geometry for other options, in particular for setting the text height.

Spacing between paragraphs can be due to big indivisible objects near the end of a page. If there are many short subsections, this may happen, or if there are big math displays. Curing the appearance is a job to be done when the text is in final form.

A \raggedbottom command before \begin{document} will avoid this, at the expense of having non even page height.

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