Open right for front matter

Question

My front matter (abstract, table of contents, etc) does not start on the right hand side despite my chapters doing so. How do I ensure that these pages also start on the right hand side? The latex code is below.

\documentclass[twoside,openright]{report}

% Packages

\begin{document}
\include{0_Frontmatter/title}

\onehalfspacing
\pagenumbering{roman}

\include{0_Frontmatter/acknowledgements}

\include{0_Frontmatter/abstract}

\tableofcontents

\listoffigures

\clearpage
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\include{1_Introduction/chapter1}

% etc ...

\end{document}

Answer 1

Only \chapter commands issue automatically a \cleardoublepage; the \tableofcontents and \listoffigures command do also, because they issue \chapter*.

Other parts must be treated individually; for example, if you want your acknowledgments and abstract to be on an odd-numbered page, then put

\cleardoublepage

as the first command in the included file (or just before the relevant \include commands). So

\documentclass[twoside,openright]{report}

% Packages

\begin{document}
\include{0_Frontmatter/title}

\onehalfspacing
\pagenumbering{roman}

\cleardoublepage % not strictly required, since we are on page I
\include{0_Frontmatter/acknowledgements}

\cleardoublepage
\include{0_Frontmatter/abstract}

\tableofcontents

\listoffigures

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\include{1_Introduction/chapter1}

% etc ...

\end{document}

Note that a \pagenumbering command automatically resets the page number to 1.