[Tex/LaTex] Phantom or blank pages between chapters

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I am setting a book for Springer using their style sheet and have hit a problem where I am getting phantom pages between chapters. The complete book comprises front matter, toc, list of tables, 36 chapters, 6 appendices and an index (around 700 pages). I have managed to duplicate the problem with two chapters. The first chapter (1-12) ends on an even page (12) and the next chapter should start on the next right odd hand page. Instead I get an odd blank page with a running head, (13) and then a totally blank even page (15). The next chapter then starts as I would expect on page 15. I have put the files up at

http://rhymneyconsulting.co.uk/fortran/third_edition/

chap02.tex and chap03.tex are the two chapters, third_edition.tex
is the book tex file. I have put up a pdf showing the problem.
svmono.cls is the latex style sheet. our_acknowledgement.tex
is part of the front matter.

Are these files sufficient for someone to have a look and give me some pointers
as to where I might be going wrong?

Best Answer

This is caused by the \include command, which always starts a new page. You then get a completely blank page so that the next chapter starts on an odd page.

If you use \input rather than \include, the problem will go away.

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