double-sided
How do I make the first page double sided in a single sided LaTeX document?
Is there a way that I can tell LaTeX that I want something on both sides of the first page, but everything after it to be single sided only, without making the whole document double sided and inserting a blank page after every page?
This just prints on odd pages shipping out blank pages in between
\documentclass[twoside]{book}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\let\ol@outputpage\@outputpage
\def\@outputpage{%
\ifodd\c@page\else\shipout\vbox{}\advance\c@page\@ne\fi
\ol@outputpage}
\makeatother
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{1\vskip .7\textheight}}
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{2\vskip .7\textheight}}
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{3\vskip .7\textheight}}
and back to normal:
\makeatletter
\let\@outputpage\ol@outputpage
\makeatother
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{4\vskip .7\textheight}}
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{5\vskip .7\textheight}}
\fbox{\parbox{3in}{6\vskip .7\textheight}}
\end{document}
If you do not have too many pages, you could do it this way. However, it is not entirely automatic as you need to tell pdfpages to insert the blank pages.
We start by creating prebooklet.pdf from the sample file used in my earlier answer:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a5paper,verbose]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum} % this package is for creating filler text
\author{N.~N}
\title{The booklet}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\section{Europe}
\subsection{Berlin}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{Paris}
\lipsum[1-3]
\subsection{Vienna}
\lipsum[10]
\subsection{Rome}
\lipsum[15]
\section{Africa}
\lipsum[1-4]
\subsection{Accra}
\lipsum[5-8]
\subsection{Johannesburg}
\lipsum[9-11]
\subsection{Casablanca}
\lipsum[11-12]
\lipsum[5-6]
\section{Asia}
\lipsum[1-4]
\subsection{Tokyo}
\lipsum[5-8]
\subsection{Beijing}
\lipsum[9-11]
\subsection{Mumbai}
\lipsum[11-12]
\lipsum[5-6]
\end{document}
This generates a 17-page A5 document. We then use pdfpages to produce the booklet as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\includepdfset{pages=-}
\author{N.~N}
\title{The booklet}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-,booklet,landscape,pages={1,{},2,{},3,{},4,{},5,{},6,{},7,{},8,{},9,{},10,{},11,{},12,{},13,{},14,{},15,{},16,{},17}]{prebooklet.pdf}
\end{document}
The {} in the page specification tells pdfpages to insert a blank page. Because the page numbers are already set in the original .tex file, this does not affect the visible pagination in any way.
Best Answer
The
geometrypackage allows one to switch your layout mid-document. So, you could set it astwosidefor the first two pages, and then switch to the default ("oneside").Here is a minimal document producing four pages, the first two are
twoside, while the last two are not set intwosidemode, as shown by theshowframeoption togeometry.lipsumwas merely used to produce dummy text, Lorem ipsum style.