Extra "Contents", "Glossary" and "Acronyms" pages, when using \usepackage[acronym]{glossary}

Question

I'm currently playing around with the LaTeX template for my thesis, but am at a loss as to why extra pages appear between the generated "Contents", "Glossary" and "Acronyms" lists?

Is this a problem with interference between the loaded packages, or have I forgotten something important? Can I manually suppress the creation of these extra pages by tweaking the \tableofcontents and \printglossaries commands?

I am running this project on Windows 7, using the TeXmaker front end... Cheers.

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%% Define document class and load required packages
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[british]{babel} 
\usepackage{commath, amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb, setspace}
\usepackage{graphicx, pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} 
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,citecolor=green, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[xindy, toc, acronym, nonumberlist, translate=babel]{glossaries} \makeglossaries

%% Define example glossary entry
\newglossaryentry{exampleglossary}{
    name={Example Glossary},
    description={An example glossary entry},
    sort=exampleglossary
}

%% Define example acronym entry
\newacronym{exampleacronym}{EA}{Example Acronym}

%% Begin document
\begin{document}

%% Generate table of contents and glossary pages
\tableofcontents
\glsaddall \printglossaries 

%% Define example chapter with hyperref links
\chapter{Chapter Title}
Example Bibliography reference \cite{examplebibliography}.\\
Example Glossary reference \gls{exampleglossary}.\\
Example Acronym reference \gls{exampleacronym}.\\

%% Define example bibliography entry and construct bibliography
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}    
\begin{thebibliography}{9}

    \bibitem{examplebibliography} 
        author, 
        title, 
        publisher,
        year.

\end{thebibliography}       

%% End document
\end{document}

Answer 1

As cmhughes indicates, this is the intended behaviour. By default, the book class assumes that your book will be printed double-sided and that you would like things like the table of contents to always appear on an odd page. Usually, that is what you want. If not, however, you have various options.

If your document is to be double-sided but you don't mind whether things start on odd (front) or even (back) pages, you can use

\documentclass[openany]{book}

If, on the other hand, your book will be single-sided, then it would be better to use

\documentclass[oneside]{book}

which will also ensure consistent headers and margins (which TeX will otherwise typically change to accommodate different odd and even page layouts).

With openany:

Note the changes to inner and outer margins between odd and even pages because they are designed to be printed back-to-back.

With oneside:

Note the consistent page margins for the single-sided case.

Answer 2

Don't worry, this is the expected behaviour; what you're seeing is the result of the \cleardoublepage command which is issued by the book document class between successive chapters.

You can manually tell it not to do so by temporarily disabling the command- the following code does the trick:

\begingroup
\let\cleardoublepage\relax
\tableofcontents
\printglossaries 
\endgroup