Thoughts on the book class in LaTeX templates

[PeterBowman]

As requested by @jgvictores, I'd like to raise this question with regards to the use of the book class in Bachelor's thesis templates: ref. To make it clear, please refer to the following PDF document generated from current TFG.tex and a sample text: plantilla-tfg-asrob.pdf.

It's worth noting that this is a double-sided book with outer margins wider than the inner ones, which may seem surprising (or not?). Interestingly enough, there are strong reasons for using such layout and these have to do with: a) an extra space for margin notes, b) tradition (?).

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/113567
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/2565755
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063

The following question arises: is this a "good" template for a Bachelor's thesis? Margins may be freely adjusted with the geometry package, one-sided documents could be preferred over two-sided layouts, other LaTeX classes may render more convenient (e.g. memoir or article). The UC3M's library guidelines for BTs encourage the use of article: http://uc3m.libguides.com/TFG.

[jgvictores]

@PeterBowman Thanks a lot for all of these links. Most literature I've read in the past agrees with (2) of Jan Hlavacek from this link:

When you open a book, you see the two facing pages, which you can think about as columns of text. If the inner margin is exactly half of the outer margin, the space separating the two columns will be exactly the same as the space separating each of the columns from the edge of the page, which seems like a fairly desirable thing to do.

With this in mind, I'm undecided between two options:

1. Leave as it is, but add a small amount of additional inner magin to compensate for the fact that, in practice, most printing places do not add additional inner margin for binding space.
2. Use the article class, because it is what is used in http://uc3m.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=29043412, linked from http://uc3m.libguides.com/TFG/escribir#s-lib-ctab-14471455-3.