number one page every two pages

Question

Hi I have to write an article and I want to put the figures on the back of the pages where the text is. So I thought I just had to always put a blank page between every text page so I can put my figures there. The only problem is that i dont want to put page numbers on the sides where my figures are. Do you have any idea what command you have to use?

Answer 1

Aside from whether this is a good idea, you probably want to wrap this in a command, and use figure to avoid ugly page breaks:

\def\figpage#1{%
    \begin{figure}[p!]
    #1%
    \addtocounter{page}{-1}%
    \end{figure}
}

\figpage{\includegraphics{figure.mps}}

Beware of this code; I've not tested it. But this should give you your figures on its own page, which will not advance the page numbers. It will only work if you've got figures on every recto page, though; if you don't, there won't be a figure page, and you'll just get a normal verso page which will advance your page number.

If you know where your page breaks will be already, just do the following on your figure pages:

\addtocounter{page}{-1}
\thispagesyle{empty}

That will remove any header or footer, so that the page number won't be displayed, and prevent the page number from being incremented.

If you want some header or footer information displayed on these pages, you'll need to define a separate pagestyle for them See the documentation for fancyhdr for an easy way to do this.