How can I place the main text of a document on only verso (left) pages and the footnotes on recto (right) pages (or vice versa)?
Update:
The expected appearance is not unlike moving the whole footnote area to the next page. A simple solution like this should work, but does not:
\renewcommand\footnoterule{\newpage}
Update:
I have made some small progress on this on my own. The footnote
package, as part of mdwtools
has a command called \savenotes
, savenotes
environment, and spewnotes
command.
savenotes
– This tells it to save notes.savenotes
environment – Text places between here are saved.spewnotes
– This tells it to print the notes.
This code will display some text, but put the footnotes on the next page:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{footnote}
\begin{document}
\savenotes
This is some text.\footnote{This is a footnote.}
\newpage
\spewnotes
\end{document}
Unfortunately, this appears to be incompatible with footmisc
.
Update:
I have discovered this page which explains how to put text on recto and figures on verso pages:
Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book, numbering only on right pages
With some modification, footnotes can be placed on the left-hand pages:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\@addfig{\relax}
\newcommand\addfig[1]{\global\long\def\@addfig{#1}}
\newcommand\@putfig{\@addfig\addfig{\relax}}
\newcommand\blankpage{%
\null
\@putfig%
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\addtocounter{page}{-1}%
\clearpage
\afterpage{\blankpage}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\afterpage{\footnote{This is in the right place.}\blankpage}
\blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\end{document}
The placement of everything seems fine, but the footnotes are not truly functioning as they should.
Best Answer
This is more of a possible roadmap to a possible solution: You could split the
footnote
, i.e. use\footnotemark
and\footnotetext
. Then you "gather" all\footnotetext
of one verso page, and issue the gathered contents after a page break. The tablefootnote package does something similar for tables: gathering all footnotes occurring in a table, and at the end of (i.e. after) thetable
-environment the gathered\footnotetext
s are issued.EDIT
Taking your code,
hyperref
, and abusingtablefootnote
I got this:But that would mean that you get the footnote-text at the backside of the page where the footnote mark was placed. Do you want this?