I'm typesetting my thesis using twoside with amsbook class. At the start I need to have single-sided pages for Titlepage, Declaration, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and Abstract. How can I get it to leave every second page blank (but leave the rest of the thesis two-sided)? (All of them are one-page things except the table of contents which goes over two pages.)
I used titlepage environment for the first page, then Chapter*{name} for the other pages so that they appear in the TOC, and \tableofcontents for the TOC. The chapters have a blank page after them, but the title page doesn't and the TOC prints back to back as well.
I have another problem with my title page. I used geometry package to set the inner margin to 4cm and outer margin to 2cm. The title page is acting like a left-hand page instead of a right-hand page though (the right margin is 4 and left is 2). Shouldn't the first page be a right-hand page?
Thanks anyone who can give me any help!
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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{amsbook}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=3cm,inner=2cm,outer=2cm,bottom=2cm,twoside,bindingoffset=2cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage} text \end{titlepage}
\frontmatter
\chapter*{Declaration} text
\chapter*{Acknowledgements} text
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3} \tableofcontents
\chapter*{Abstract} text
\mainmatter rest of text
