LyX ⇒ Start chapter on right-hand page

[nugae]

I'm new to LyX and I'm writing a pamphlet in which each new chapter should start on a right-hand page. In Document Preferences, I have the following settings:

Document class: book (AMS)
Class settings: Options: 11pt, reqno, openright

The "openright" setting seems to have no effect, and chapters continue to start on the next consecutive page rather than always starting on a right-hand page.

The "11pt" and "reqno" settings are behaving as they should, so this isn't a problem with class settings in general.

I'd be grateful for advice from anyone who knows LyX or LaTeX. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Is there something I can do to make all chapters start on a right-hand page?

[gmedina]

Add the option twoside to the documentclass.

[nugae]

Perfect: that did the trick. Thank you!!!

[dimarcom]

hi,

i run into the same problem, but putting twoside in the documentclass options doesn't work for me... i erased all bbl, aux, mtc etc etc files before re-compiling for the 100th time, still doesn't work... here's a bit of the preamble:

thanks for your help !

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{scrbook}
\usepackage[lmargin=1cm,rmargin=2.5cm,tmargin=2.5cm,bmargin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %% Only if the base font of the document is to be sans serif
\usepackage{fancyhdr,graphicx}
%\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{minitoc}
\usepackage{hyperref}

[dimarcom]

... sorry guys for the intrusion, the margins i had set were wrong.
For a twoside openright book, the left margin should be the big one to give enough space for binding.

sorry again for the intrusion

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marie,

as I see your code above, just a small advice. You are using hyperref, so I guess you produce pdf output. In the case you compile with pdflatex use pdflscape instead of the lscape package. (Or remove lscape, if you don't need it.)
And btw. I prefer scrpage2 instead of fancyhdr when using scrbook, but that's no problem, fancyhdr can be used with KOMA classes.

Stefan

[dimarcom]

Thanks for the extra advice !
I didn't know those packages existed.

Have a nice day,
M.