[Tex/LaTex] How to force LaTeX to put even pages on the right hand side in documentclass article

double-sidedmarginspage-numbering

In documentclass article I try to put even pages on the right hand side of a twoside document (unfortunatelly it is no option for me to change the document class).

My point is to start with pagenumber 1 on the right hand side with correct margins (from pages on the right side). Any ideas how to achieve that ?

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\thispagestyle{plain}

\cleardoublepage
... content on the left
\newpage
... content on the right
\cleardoublepage
... content on the left
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
... content should be on the right but is placed on the left side caused by change
    in pagenumbering which leads to pagenumber reset to 1 (which is intended)
\end{document}

Best Answer

With the article class and the twoside class option enabled, the outer page margins will be twice as large as the inner margins (conforming to rather venerable typographic rules ;-)), and there is no binding correction. It seems you assumed LaTeX would horizontally center the textblock and add some binding correction, and so you took even (left-hand) pages for odd (right-hand) pages and vice versa.

As you cannot use another class, try the geometry package and its hcentering and bindingoffset options -- this should result in the desired margins.

\documentclass[twoside]{article}

\usepackage[hcentering,bindingoffset=8mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-12]

\end{document}
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