Fix margins so that the content does not "jump" left/right while read…

…ing on a screen
latextemplates · Jul 22, 2017 · ed22ed8 · ed22ed8
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 
 - made font size default again (now 11pt instead of 12pt) to look better
+- margins are set in a way that the page content does not "jump" when reading on screen.
 
 ## 1.0.0 - 2017-06-16
 

diff --git a/ausarbeitung.tex b/ausarbeitung.tex
@@ -48,16 +48,10 @@
 \documentclass[
                % fontsize=11pt is the standard
                paper=a4,
-               twoside,  % fuer die Betrachtung am Schirm ungeschickt
-               BCOR=3mm, % Bindekorrektur
-               DIV=13,   % je höher der DIV-Wert, desto mehr geht auf eine Seite. Gute werde sind zwischen DIV=12 und DIV=15
-               headinclude=true,
-               footinclude=false,
-% ENDE: Optionen für typearea
-%               titlepage,
+               twoside,  % we are optimizing for both screen and two-side printing. So the page numbers will jump, but the content is configured to stay in the middle (by using the geometry package)
                bibliography=totoc,
 %               idxtotoc,   %Index ins Inhaltsverzeichnis
-%                liststotoc, %List of X ins Inhaltsverzeichnis, mit liststotocnumbered werden die Abbildungsverzeichnisse nummeriert
+%               liststotoc, %List of X ins Inhaltsverzeichnis, mit liststotocnumbered werden die Abbildungsverzeichnisse nummeriert
                headsepline,
                cleardoublepage=empty,
                parskip=half,

diff --git a/preambel/packages_and_options.tex b/preambel/packages_and_options.tex
@@ -792,9 +792,15 @@
 %
 %Source: http://www.howtotex.com/tips-tricks/change-margins-of-a-single-page/
 %
-%Normally, this should not be used as the typearea package calculates the margins perfectly
+%Normally, geometry should not be used as the typearea package calculates the margins perfectly for printing
+%However, we want better screen-readable documents where the content does not "jump"
+%Thus, we fix the margins left and right to the same value
 \usepackage[
-  pass %just load the package and do not destory the work of typearea
+  left=3cm,right=3cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,
+  headsep=18pt,
+  footskip=30pt,
+  includehead,
+  includefoot
 ]{geometry}
 %%%