Page Layout ⇒ Separate Text Parts for odd and even Pages

[hilf]

I have the task to have two separate texts, say "L.tex", "R.tex" to be combined in one book, with "L.tex" always on the left page, and "R.tex" always on a right page. Each is to have its own \newpage. Someone out there to know a solution?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

You could create a new document, which reads in the other documents and combines them, using the pdfpages package and its \includepdf command.

Stefan

[hilf]

dear Stefan, great to have your professional advice. Below is the realization. It works! Thanks
Of course, a dream remains to have the two .tex files as input, and teach latex to pick the stream of characters from the left.tex file for the left pages and from the right.tex file for the right side pages.

#test.tex

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\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages={1}]{test-right.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={2}]{test-left.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={3}]{test-right.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={4}]{test-left.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={5}]{test-right.pdf}
% and so forth
\end{document}

#test-left.tex

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...
\begin{document}
\newpage
this is page 1 left
\newpage
\newpage
this is page 2 left
\newpage
\newpage
this is page 3 left
..

#test-right.tex

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\begin{document}
this is page 1 right
\newpage
\newpage
this is page 2 right
\newpage
\newpage
this is page 3 right
\newpage
..