Option twoside

[ralph089]

Hallo,

kurze Frage: Wenn ich meine Arbeit binden lassen möchte, empfiehlt sich gleich das ganze beidseitig zu bedrucken. Ist in dem Paket der beidseitige Druck (twoside) vorgesehen, damit jeweils der linke und rechte Rand abwechselnd einen größeren Abstand zur Bindung bekommen?

Ich habe bereits gesehen, dass das Paket auf der Klasse "book" aufsetzt, allerdings passen beim setzen der twoside Option z. B. die Seitenüberschriften nicht mehr. Gibt's da eine Lösung?

[imagingbook]

Nein, derzeit nicht, in der Vorlage ist nur einseitiger Druck vorgesehen.
--WB

[imagingbook]

This should be looked at again ...

[imagingbook]

Here is a quick patch to switch to twopage format in the current hgbthesis setup:

1. File hgbthesis.cls:
   Change
   \LoadClass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{book}
   to
   \LoadClass[a4paper,11pt,twoside]{book}

2. File hgbheadings.sty:
   Change
   \fancyhead[R]{\sffamily\thepage}
\fancyhead[L]{\sffamily\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
   to
   \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\sffamily\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\sffamily\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\sffamily\nouppercase{\leftmark}}

This will show

• on EVEN (left-side) pages: the current page number + chapter title,
• on ODD (right-side) pages: the current section title + page number.

Header contents can be customized by modifying \leftmark and \rightmark (e.g., using the \markboth command). This opens many options as of what people would like to see in the two headers. For example, some may want to see the author's name and thesis title there instead. So while the technical path is straightforward, a more general solution would add quite some overhead. I therefore suggest to keep the one-page setup at this time.

[hochleitner]

I'll post this here as evidence of how other universities are handling this topic. University of Vienna obviously requires two-sided prints when handing in a thesis: https://mtbl.univie.ac.at/storage/media/mtbl02/2023_2024/2023_2024_62.pdf

On page 2 it says:

(2) Die Arbeit ist im DIN A4-Hochformat, hart gebunden und doppelseitig bedruckt einzureichen.

Maybe we should consider passing the parameter to the class options to enable this at some point.

[imagingbook]

I agree, but as said its not only about passing the option through. I'm happy to look at this once the current changes are in done ...

[imagingbook]

The recent commit (c3c3fc8) to branch two-page-option adds simple option handling to hgbthesis.cls. Final header/footer setup (in hgbheadings.sty) still needs to be done.

[imagingbook]

All relevant modifications for handling oneside and twoside options have been migrated to branch flexible-cover-page (commit d31e158) for easier merging back into main. Branch two-page-option is thus obsolete and will be removed.
All hagenberg-thesis classes now accept and handle these options, oneside still being the default, as before.

[hochleitner]

Aw, this is beautiful. ❤️
Let's see how much chaos it creates, when people do two-sided documents when one sided is recommended.
Maybe we should add something to the tutorial? E.g. "For digital-only documents use one-sided. Use two-sided for printed theses when required by your program or university."

[imagingbook]

I wondered about this too.
How about adding a check to the theme to issue a warning if the wrong option is used?

Btw., I changed a small detail in the headers: Instead of "3. Title of Chapter" / "3.1. Title of Section" it now shows "3 Title of Chapter" / "3.1 Title of Section" - removed that one dot.

[hochleitner]

Theme checks could be an idea, but would need a clear commitment on how to handle it. I'm not sure if can can manage to get this even for our university. 😬

[imagingbook]

Well, the chaos would be the same if people used plain LaTeX ...
Still, it may not hurt to add a warning when twoside is used, since oneside has always been the norm. Just to make sure people are aware of what they are doing.