This is follow up of the previous question, Document class for designing a book.
Majority of respondents suggested that I design the the page layout using the class I was using for writing the text, in my case scrbook
.
I have, of course studied the KOMA script manual and I find page layout settings pretty cumbersome. The page is divided into n columns and n rows, of which outer two, inner one, bottom two and top one are margins. On the other hand, I have the following instructions from the book designer:
page dimensions: 210 x 245 mm2
inner margin: 25 mm
outer margin: 10 mm
upper margin: 10 mm
bottom margin: 25 mm
text block width: 120 mm
My calculation from data above:
marginal notes width: 55 mm
I also attach the sample of the required layout, created in non-LaTeX program.
Please, advice me how to do this layout in scrbook class. In this moment, I am interested in page layout only, as I have solved some of other design problems myself or with other people's help already. Thanks.
Best Answer
Using only
KOMA-Script
, the ratio between top and bottom margin will always be 1:2. Therefore, an additional package (e.g.,geometry
) is needed for your desired layout. Note that you have to split your calculated "marginal notes width" intomarginparsep
andmarginparwidth
and to add both parameters toouter
. See section 3 of thegeometry
manual for details and additional modifications (e.g., regarding headers/footers).