Starting chapters on even-numbered pages

In documents using the book class chapters start by default on a right-hand, odd-numbered page (recto page), corresponding to option openright. This may be changed by specifying the option openany to use the next available page, which is set default in the case of the report class.
But the LaTeX standard classes don’t provide an openleft option. The memoir class accepts openleft and enables chapters to start on left-hand pages (verso pages).

The book and report class use \cleardoublepage (defined in latex.ltx) to ensure that chapters start on odd-numbered pages. The opposite could be specified by redefining the \cleardoublepage command:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\cleardoublepage{\clearpage\if@twoside
  \ifodd\c@page \hbox{}\newpage\if@twocolumn\hbox{}%
  \newpage\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother

This topic was discussed on mrunix.de.

13. June 2008 by stefan
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