Page Layout ⇒ Strange blank page after the preface

[AleCes]

I'm using the document class book with the openany option in order to avoid those blank pages between chapters.
Still a blank page comes out between the preface and the first chapter.
Note: this is a Serbian text, in order to help you find out the page in question, it has the vi (roman) numeral in the heading, on the left.

[AleCes]

Bump! Here is some code, maybe this will help you to understand the issue.

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, openany]{book}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{serbian}
\setotherlanguages{french, latin}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{bookmark}


\title{ИСТОРИЈА ВИЗАНТИСКОГ ЦАРСТВА}
\author{Шарл Дил}
\date{Јули 1919}



\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\chapter{ПРЕДГОВОР}
\mainmatter
\chapter{bla}
\chapter{bla}

\end{document}

[cgnieder]

This is caused by \mainmatter. In the book class it has the definition

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\cleardoublepage\@mainmattertrue\pagenumbering{arabic}}

You can see that it issues \cleardoublepage. You can redefine it, though:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\mainmatter{\clearpage\@mainmattertrue\pagenumbering{arabic}}
\makeatother

\makeatletter and \makeatother are necessary due to the @ in \@mainmattertrue.

Regards

[AleCes]

This is caused by \mainmatter. In the book class it has the definition

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\cleardoublepage\@mainmattertrue\pagenumbering{arabic}}

You can see that it issues \cleardoublepage. You can redefine it, though:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\mainmatter{\clearpage\@mainmattertrue\pagenumbering{arabic}}
\makeatother

\makeatletter and \makeatother are necessary due to the @ in \@mainmattertrue.

Regards

Hi cgnieder!

Thanks for your help, this solved my issue!

Regards