[Tex/LaTex] Oneside cover within a twosided LaTeX document

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I'm writing my thesis and I'd like to have a onesided cover while the rest of the document is twoside, so to obtain the text and figures well-centered within the cover. Here is my main .tex file:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,onecolumn,openany]{book}
\usepackage{thesis}
\graphicspath{{plots/}}
\begin{document}

%\setboolean{@oneside}{false}
\include{cover/cover}
%\setboolean{@oneside}{true} 

\include{chapter1\chapter}
...

Furthermore, the default margins are too big, and so I'd like to change them. A first solution to this last problem was to change the document into a twocolumn one in the very first line of the code, and then, after the cover page, changing it into \onecolumn.

EDIT: my own answer (see below) doesn't give the exact result I wanted. Now the number of the pages are correctly put on opposite corners depending whether it's an odd or even page, but the left and right margins are the same. Actually, I would like "external" margins to be a little wider, to put there some notes (using \marginpar).

Thanks!

Best Answer

After trying all the possible permutations of the commands I know, I obtained a good result with the code below:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside,twocolumn,openany]{book}

\usepackage{thesis}
\graphicspath{{plots/}}

\begin{document}

    \include{cover/cover}

    %change into onecolumn-twoside
    \onecolumn
    \setboolean{@twoside}{true}

    \mainpagestyle

    \include{chapter1/chapter}
    \include{chapter2/chapter}
    \include{chapter3/chapter}

    \backmatter
    \twocolumn

    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
    \bibliographystyle{siam}
    \bibliography{mybib.bib}

\end{document}

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I have used the book class but it should work for your class too.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\begin{document}

\newgeometry{centering,top=0in}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \pagecolor{gray}
    \afterpage{\pagecolor{white}}

    %Cover image
    \centering
    \noindent
    \makebox[0pt]{%
    \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=0.4\textheight]{example-image-a}%
    }

    %Author name
    \vspace*{2cm}
    {\LARGE\bf Gilson Manuel Gomes Pina\par}

    %Thesis title
      \vspace*{1.2cm}
    {\Huge \bf Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles in Emerging Markets \par}

    \vspace*{1.2cm}

    {\small PhD thesis in economics, specializing in Monetary Economics, supervised by Professor 
    Pedro Bação and Professor Ricardo Sousa and presented to the Faculty of Economics, University 
    of Coimbra. \par}

    \vspace*{1.0cm}

    {\small September 2014 \par}

    \vspace*{1.6cm}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{example-image-b}

    \textsc{\small Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra}
    \par
\end{titlepage}
\cleardoublepage
Some text
\end{document}

enter image description here

With dmathesis class:

\documentclass{dmathesis}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}     %% for demo
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage[pass]{geometry}   %% pass in important
\begin{document}
%% cover.tex starts--------------------------
\newgeometry{centering,top=0in}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \pagecolor{gray}
    \afterpage{\pagecolor{white}}

    %Cover image
    \centering
    \setlength{\hoffset}{0in}
    \noindent
    \makebox[0pt]{%
    \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=0.5\textheight]{example-image-a}%
    }

    %Author name
    \vspace*{1cm}
    {\LARGE\bf Gilson Manuel Gomes Pina\par}

    %Thesis title
      \vspace*{0.75cm}
    {\Huge \bf Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles in Emerging Markets \par}

    \vspace*{0.75cm}

    {\small PhD thesis in economics, specializing in Monetary Economics, supervised by Professor
    Pedro Bação and Professor Ricardo Sousa and presented to the Faculty of Economics, University
    of Coimbra. \par}

    \vspace*{0.5cm}

    {\small September 2014 \par}

    \vspace*{1.1cm}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{example-image-b}

    \textsc{\small Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra}
    \par
\end{titlepage}
\cleardoublepage     %% imp
\restoregeometry     %% imp
%% cover.tex ends--------------------------
\Blinddocument       %% for demo
\end{document}

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