Is there a way to leave the even pages blank within one chapter only?

Question

I'm writing a thesis and would like the contents to be printed on odd pages only (when using a duplex printer, the rest of the thesis should be printed double-sided). I would also like to have this for the acknowledgments (which exceeds 2 pages).

(\cleardoublepage will not do the work, since it cares only about the first page.)

I'm using twoside option.

Answer 1

Update: This doesn't work very well with floats:

Here a partial solution which adds empty even pages for a chapter. You also want to change the margins to look like for onside, do you? Also the empty pages are still numbered. Simply reducing the page number by one might cause issues.

\documentclass[twoside]{book}

\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text

\newcommand*{\oddpagesonly}{%
    \def\emptyevenpage{%
        \afterpage{%
            \suppressfloats
            \thispagestyle{empty}%
            \null\newpage
        \emptyevenpage}%
    }%
    \emptyevenpage
}

\newcommand*{\allpages}{%
    \let\emptyevenpage\relax
}

\begin{document}

\chapter{One}
\lipsum[1-30]

\chapter{Two}
\oddpagesonly
\lipsum[1-30]

\allpages
\chapter{Three}
\lipsum[1-30]

\end{document}

Answer 2

A very simple way of doing this would be, if you need this special configuration for a limited number of pages, to use the following code:

\afterpage{
\null
\vfill
\thispagestyle{empty}
\clearpage}

This code should be put anywhere in the page before the blank page you want to insert.

Of course you need to put \usepackage{afterpage} in the preamble.

It is also possible to play with the numbering a little by putting a \addtocounter{page}{-1} before the \clearpage command.