How to alternate page margins for printing and binding as a book?

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I am currently working on my master’s thesis, and I need a layout suitable for printing and binding as a book.

This requires that each chapter alternates the page margins: the first page should have a larger left margin, the second page a larger right margin, and so on).

Is there an easy way to achieve this without manually adjusting each page with a #pad()?

Since the chapters don’t follow a consistent page pattern, it’s not possible to programmatically assign every odd page to the left and every even page to the right.

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You can use the following rule:

#set page(margin: (inside: 2.5cm, outside: 2cm, y: 1.75cm))

See Page setup guide – Typst Documentation for more details.

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Oh wow, I didn’t see that. Much thanks.

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