Page Layout ⇒ Starting a twosided book with a right hand title page

[jason2]

Hi,

I am making a twosided book. It is a hardbound book where opening the cover should reveal the title page, which will be a right-hand sided page (i.e. margins are wider on the right). The default is to have the title page start on a left-hand sided page with a blank page following on the right side.

Right now I am just using the default:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{book}

Is there any way to start the book class with a right-hand title page?

Thank you very much,

Jason

[localghost]

Somehow I can't comprehend your problem. The title page is an odd (right) page with a following blank page. See code below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \
  \frontmatter
  \tableofcontents

  \mainmatter
  \Blinddocument

  \backmatter
  \appendix
  \blinddocument  
\end{document}

Even if you use the titlepage environment to create a title page on your own, this behaviour would not change. Please show the opposite with a minimal example.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jason2]

Thorsten,

Thanks for taking a look! I think I have my lefts and rights mixed up. In the example you provided (which has the same formatting output as my document), the title page has a right margin that is about 3/4in larger than the left margin (i.e. the binding is on the right). I want to start the book with the title page, such that the title page is the first page of the document and is bound from the left---meaning the left side margin is wider than the right side. I'm inserting an image I drew of what I'm hoping the final product will look like (pardon my poor drawing skills).

book.jpg (40.22 KiB) Viewed 23622 times

Right now, I can only get the document to start with the title page binding from the left, as in your example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{book}%

\usepackage{amsmath}%
\usepackage{amsfonts}%
\usepackage{amssymb}%
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
%\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,}


%%%%%%OTHER PACKAGES%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,%
    citecolor=black,%
    filecolor=black,%
    linkcolor=black,%
    urlcolor=black}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\usepackage{blindtext}
    
%----------------------------------------------------------
%----------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents

\chapter*{Acknowledgements}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 

\chapter{Abstract}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 
	
\mainmatter

\Blinddocument

\backmatter

\appendix

\blinddocument  

\end{document}

[localghost]

You understandably have been a bit irritated by the type area. It is typographically correct that the outer margins are wider than the inner ones (or at least should be). Exactly the two inner margins in total are as wide as the single outer margins. What you need is something called binding correction or binding offset. You can set up a suitable page geometry with the geometry package. See the manual for details about the before mentioned terms. You can read more detailed explanations about type area construction in the KOMA Script guide or in the memoir manual.

[jason2]

Thanks. For future reference of anyone reading this, a use of the Geometry package that gets the default margins for a book that opens right is:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book}
\usepackage[lmargin=142pt,rmargin=95pt,tmargin=127pt,bmargin=123pt]{geometry}

Jason

[localghost]

Now that the problem is solved, please be so kind and mark the topic accordingly as you have already been directed in my last reply and as clearly written in Section 3 of the Board Rules (to be read before posting). Please keep that in mind for the future so that further reminders will not be necessary.