I've started to use Latex to create a book. I feel like I've gotten the basics down, but I am still very much at the beginning of my learning curve. Google has been a great resource, but I have not been able to find the answer to this question.
I would like my chapter to always begin on an odd page, and I would like the even page just before it to be totally blank. No headers on either of these two pages. This seems to be a common format in most books I've looked at.
I am using fancy headers.
So far the best resource I've found is this:
http://www.markschenk.com/tensegrity/latexexplanation.html
The author suggests the following.
% Code for creating empty pages
% No headers on empty pages before new chapter
\makeatletter
\def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
\hbox{}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\newpage
\if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother \clearpage{\pagestyle{plain}\cleardoublepage}
This works just fine if the previous chapter ends on an odd page, it inserts a blank just like I want. But if the previous chapter ends on an even page, then it simply begins the chapter on the next page(which is odd).
I've tried making a few changes to the above, with limited success. It feels like I am doing a hack to do something that should be fairly easy. But perhaps this is necessary.
Any suggestions?