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From: ertem@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Tuna Ertemalp)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: twosided pages
Message-ID: <12955@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Dec 89 05:20:58 GMT
Sender: ertem@polya.Stanford.EDU
Reply-To: ertem@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Tuna Ertemalp)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Probably this is a very trivial problem, but I couldn't solve it...

I have a LaTeX file of the following format:

     \documentstyle[titlepage,fullpage,twoside]{article}
     
     \begin{document}
     
     \title{{\Huge TITLE}}
     \author{Tuna Ertemalp}
     
     \date{\today}
     \maketitle
     
     \cleardoublepage
     
     \begin{center}
     {\huge CONTENTS} \\
     \end{center}
     
     blah blah
     
     \cleardoublepage
     
     blah blah
     
     \cleardoublepage
     
     blah blah
     
     \end{document}


Since I'm one of the lucky people with access to a printer with
two-sided printing capability, I want to have the output to have the
title page, an empty page (both without page numbers), and then the
rest of the pages numbered 1...n. If I don't have that blank page, the
title page and page 1 appear on two sides of the same page; hardly
what I want.

The funny thing is: I have two such files. They are equal except
the text they have instead of "blah blah". Just to confuse me, one of
them prints just the way I want, and the other not... I think this is
a problem with either dvi2ps or printer itself. I don't think LaTeX is
not deterministic. :-)

What am I to do?

Have fun
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