I am finishing my dissertation, and I'm using the Koma-script scrbook
class. My text starts on a right page, which is exactly what I want, but for printing I need to add a completely blank, unnumbered left page to the beginning of the file. Using \clearpage
or \newpage
, however, produces two blank pages, the first one starting on a right page.
Of course I could use the resulting file and manually remove the first blank page in Acrobat, but I would really prefer to get it right at compilation, to minimize the risk of mistakes in printing. I'm including a mwe below.
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\lipsum
\mainmatter
\chapter{Test}
\lipsum
\end{document}
Best Answer
Change the default behaviour of
scrbook
for starting new chapters:\KOMAoptions{open=left}
.Add something, that is not printed, like
\mbox{}
. Make sure the page number is not printed, too (pagestyleempty
).Insert the page break.
Reset the page counter to page 1.
At end of
\frontmatter
, directly before\mainmatter
(or in frontmatter directly before you start the next chapter like the table of contents or table of figures) reset behaviour for starting chapter pages inscrbook
to default:\KOMAoptions{open=right}
.