[comp.text.tex] chapters on odd pages in book.sty

hgschulz@cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) (03/07/91)

The book style introduces empty pages so that all chapters start on
odd-numbered pages. However, the running head is printed on these pages,
which looks a bit odd. From a few actual books, it seems that standard
operating procedure is to leave a completely blank sheet, with no page
number or running head, but naturally count it as a page. Has anybody
created a style to accomplish that? Thanks.

Henning Schulzrinne  (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 - USA === phone: +1 (413) 545-3179 (EST); FAX: (413) 545-1249

ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) (03/07/91)

In article <27536@dime.cs.umass.edu> hgschulz@cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) writes:
|The book style introduces empty pages so that all chapters start on
|odd-numbered pages. However, the running head is printed on these pages,
|which looks a bit odd. From a few actual books, it seems that standard
|operating procedure is to leave a completely blank sheet, with no page
|number or running head, but naturally count it as a page. Has anybody
|created a style to accomplish that? Thanks.

The following .sty file provides for just the functionality that
Mr Schulzrinne asks for. The following file tests the .sty file.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here--start of Schulzrinne.sty %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Schulzrinne.sty--provide for blank pages between chapters
% This redefinition of the \cleardoublepage command provides
% for a special pagestyle for the "extra" pages which are generated
% to ensure that the chapter opener is on a recto page.
% The pagestyle is "chapterverso"; for many publishers, this should be
% identical to "empty", so that's the default.
\def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage
 \if@twoside
  \ifodd\c@page\else
   \null\thispagestyle{chapterverso}\newpage
   \if@twocolumn\null\newpage\fi
   \fi
  \fi
 }%
\def\ps@chapterverso{\ps@empty}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here--end of Schulzrinne.sty %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here--start of Schulzrinne.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Schulzrinne.tex--test for blank pages between chapters
\documentstyle{book}%
\documentstyle{Schultzrinne}%
\begin{document}%
\null\newpage

\chapter{test}%

\end{document}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here--end of Schulzrinne.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%