[Tex/LaTex] \twosides in KOMA – Why is the titlepage not centered

best practicesdouble-sidedkoma-scripttitles

I'm using scrbook with the twosidesoption, and BCOR=10mm. The title page, being an odd page, has a large margin on the right, and a small margin on the left.

I'm currently using the following to make the title page centered:

\KOMAoptions{twoside = false}
\maketitle
\KOMAoptions{twoside = true}

However, I'm getting warnings that I should not do change the typearea.

Is the above workaround unhealthy for getting the right input dimensions?

More importantly: When should one use a (one-sided) cover page, and when should one use a (two-sided) title page?

This question is related to Centered title page in twoside report and Make titlepage one-sided (centered) while all other pages are two-sided , but is rather interested in the technical and layout details.

Best Answer

You didn't show us a MWE so I have to guess.

If you make your title page with KOMA-Scripts class scrbook and if you use \maketitle the title page is included in the standard type area. For a double sided book you have different margins, the outer margin is wider, the inner smaller. That's the reason why you get no centered title page.

If you want a centered title page without changing typearea use environment titlepage and package textpos. With textpos you can move text on a special point and at last you can build a centered title page by your own.

An alternative would be to create a second tex file, onesided, and use the resulting title page from this second file.

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Please provide full examples.

Do you use the package geometry?

Here a solution with KOMA:

\documentclass[a4paper,
, 12pt
, titlepage
, toc=listofnumbered
, bibliography=totoc
,  demo
]{scrbook}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newenvironment{tpage}[3]{%
\KOMAoptions{twoside = false}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \title{#2}
    \subtitle{#3}
    \date{City, den \today}
    \author{#1}

    \titlehead {
      \begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\textwidth}
        Institution\\
      \end{minipage}
      \begin{minipage}[b]{0.4\textwidth}
        \begin{flushright}
          \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{somelogo.pdf}
        \end{flushright}
      \end{minipage}
      \hrule
    }

    \maketitle
  \end{titlepage}
\KOMAoptions{twoside}
}{}

\usepackage{lipsum,showframe}
\begin{document}

\tpage{Author}{TITLE}{SUBTITLE}
\lipsum

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to include abstract into titlepage

You could misuse the \publishers element:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,abstracton,titlepage]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\titlehead{University}
\title{Title}
\subject{Subject}
\author{Author}

\publishers{%
    \normalfont\normalsize%
    \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
    }
}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

Since it’s value normally is centered an in \Large you have to put in it a \parbox of the desired width and set the font back to \normalsize (the \normalfont is a little superfluous here but does no harm at all).

result

If this doesn’t fits your needs on can redefine {abstract} and \maketitle to let the first collect and store it’s contest and the latter print out the content. But this would be an equal effort as making the title page manually. And only gainful if you need this in more than one or two documents …

Update

How to misuse the \date field to make the abstract appear higher on the page?

\date{%
    \today% thats the default I guess
    \\[2\baselineskip]% Space between date and abstract
    \normalfont\normalsize%
    \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
    }
}

There’s only the little problem that the argument of \date can‘t contain paragraphs (i.e. blank lines or \par) so we must use \\[<dim>] to get a new line an insert some space.

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