[texhax] LaTeX : Section opening recto, verso blank

[Philip TAYLOR]

Uwe Lück wrote:

> According to my understanding of titlesec, you want to have sections of 
> titlesec class "page" (like standard \part), not "top" (like standard 
> \chapter). With such a declaration, you needn't care any more about 
> \clear... Actually, \cleardoublepage skips the next page if it is even 
> (\if at twoside), so there is no need for an extra algorithm deciding 
> whether to \clearpage or to \cleardoublepage.

Thank you, Uwe : as far as I can see, "page" not
only generates an "opening chapter style" page
(which I don't want, for sections) but it also
doesn't solve the problem of a section finishing
verso -- the next section starts recto on the
same spread (sample attached).

** Phil.
--------

% (1) Make blank pages really REALLY blank

\let \LaTeXcleardoublepage = \cleardoublepage

\def \cleardoublepage
     {%
         \clearpage
         \begingroup
             \columnseprule = 0 pt
             \pagestyle {empty}%
             \LaTeXcleardoublepage
         \endgroup
     }


% (2) Extra "cleardoublepage" for section

\def \Section #1
     {
      \cleardoublepage
      \def \sectiontype {#1}
      \section [\sectiontype]{\this \sectiontype}
      \input Byz-#1.dat
     }


(3) Titleclass declaration

\titleclass \section {page}

...

(4) Usage

\Section {Symbols}
\Section {Incunabula}

% (5) Results : in attachment
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Page from Porphyrogenitus.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 290954 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20090315/f49e77cf/attachment-0001.pdf