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From: ertem@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Tuna Ertemalp)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: trivial problem???
Message-ID: <12971@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 89 02:34:56 GMT
Sender: ertem@polya.Stanford.EDU
Reply-To: ertem@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Tuna Ertemalp)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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I posted the following question about one week ago, and thought it was a
trivial problem. However, noone provided me with an answer... Is it
because the problem is so trivial that everyone thinks someone should
have replied, or is it because the problem is NP-complete and not
solvable in reasonable amount of time :-)

Have fun
Tuna

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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

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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