Page Layout ⇒ Titlepage on right hand side

[Zetison]

I want to have my titlepage.tex on the odd page (the first side of my document). I can get my document to start on odd page (left hand side) if I do not include the titlepage (I just use \stepcounter{page} in front of the document}. It seems like the titlepage have to start at even page?

my code is

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\documentclass[twoside,openany]{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.75in}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1.75in}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
	\stepcounter{page}
	\input{titlepage.tex}
\chapter{Example}
\section{Example}
\lipsum
\end{document}

How do I fix this?

Thanks for help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

generally odd pages are right pages, just have a look into a book. So there's nox fix necessary.

A PDF viewer can show odd pages on the left or on the right though, depending on its setting.

Stefan

[Zetison]

That's the strange thing, my first page start's at even page, no matter what I do. Try to compile the code above...

I only have this problem when I include my titlepage.tex file, which is strange, since it's an standard Titlepagefile.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I tried your example. The first page starts with number 2, but that's because of \stepcounter{page}. If I remove this, the firstpage starts at 1, which is an odd, right hand page.

Stefan

[Zetison]

Did you add any titlepage.tex? Because it still does not work for me. Without this file, it works fine. Try add the following:

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\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
% Upper part of the page
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{ntnu.png}\\[1cm]    
\textsc{\LARGE Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet}\\[1.5cm]
\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{ \huge \bfseries MA2001 - Matematisk prosjekt}\\[0.4cm]
\HRule \\[1.5cm]
% Author and supervisor
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{flushleft} \large
\emph{Kandidat:}\\
Jon Vegard \textsc{Venås}
\end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{flushright} \large
\emph{Veileder:} \\
 Fredrik \textsc{Skau}
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}
\vfill
% Bottom of the page
{\large \today}
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Please use the Code button for posting code, to make it better readable. It would be good if you edit your post above. Have a look at your edited first post above, and compare.

That's the strange thing, my first page start's at even page, no matter what I do.

So you mean the first page of your first chapter. The first page is the title page.

You used the option openany to the document class. Just change that to openright, and chapters will start at right hand (odd) pages.

Stefan

[Zetison]

Sorry for being a bit noob here

But no, it isn't the chapters I want to have at odd pages. It is only the titlepage, and when I tried openright, my titlepage was not affected.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

With this example, the title page is page 1, so an odd page, so a right hand page.

For example, modify titlepage.tex to see that:

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\begin{titlepage}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\begin{center}
...

When I do this with your code, I see the number 1. What do you see?

Stefan

[Zetison]

I think I have to clarify something. The titlepage is ofcourse the first page, and therefore (imaginary) numbered 1. But I need to have the titlepage on right hand side. No matter what I do when I insert my tilepage.tex, I allways get titlepage on left hand side. And if this first page is numbered with the number 1, then ofcourse, any righthandside-page is numbered with an even number. I really do not understand how you get it right...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The titlepage is ofcourse the first page, and therefore (imaginary) numbered 1. But I need to have the titlepage on right hand side. No matter what I do when I insert my tilepage.tex, I allways get titlepage on left hand side.

How does it happen that you see the (imaginary) numbered 1 page as left hand page? Number 1 is a right hand page. Books start with number 1 on the right.

Could it be that you are confused because

• the appearance of the margins give you the impression that it looks like a right hand page?
• your PDF viewer (which one?) shows the page 1 on the left of your screen?

Or how do you define right hand pages? I define a right hand page as a page with an odd number, such as 1. Number (even or odd) define the side.

Stefan