[Tex/LaTex] Inserting a blank left starting page in a Koma-script book

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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

  1. Change the default behaviour of scrbook for starting new chapters: \KOMAoptions{open=left}.

  2. Add something, that is not printed, like \mbox{}. Make sure the page number is not printed, too (pagestyle empty).

  3. Insert the page break.

  4. Reset the page counter to page 1.

  5. 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 in scrbook to default: \KOMAoptions{open=right}.

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\KOMAoptions{open=left}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\mbox{}
\clearpage
\setcounter{page}{1}

\lipsum[1-15]

\KOMAoptions{open=right}
\mainmatter

\chapter{Test}
\lipsum[16-20]
\end{document}
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