Empty pages before the full-page illustrations on the odd page before the next chapter

Question

There is an excellent answer to a very similar question already. I tried to adapt it to my use case: 6 1/4" x 9" paper. But doing so added empty pages at the end of each chapter, before the illustrations. What am I doing wrong?

    \documentclass[12pt,smallroyalvopaper]{memoir}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage[left=0.75in, right=0.875in, top=0.75in, bottom=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mwe}

\newcommand\chapimage[1]{%
\cleartoverso 
\noindent\begin{picture}(0,0)%
\put(-55,-585){%
\includegraphics[width=0.95\stockwidth,height=0.95\stockheight]{#1}}%
\end{picture}
\clearpage}

\begin{document}

\chapimage{example-image-a}% don't use extension
\chapter{Title ch1}%

\lipsum[1-3]

\chapimage{example-image-b}
\chapter{Title ch2}%

\lipsum[2-4]

\chapimage{example-image-c}
\chapter{Title ch2}%

\lipsum[3-5]

\end{document}

Edit:

This is the output with \cleartorecto

Peter Wilson · Answer 1 · 2019-11-16T19:57:00.450

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You use \cleartoverso which moves to the next even numbered page and then you put the figure. Use \cleartorecto which will move to the next odd page and then the figure will be output on the odd page; this will also put a blank page before the chapter. It seems to me that you are putting some illustration at the end of a chapter but perhaps it is more usual to put an illustration at the start of a chapter, but it is your design choice.

Perhaps you might think about memoir's openleft and openany options instead of the default openright for chapters. If you don't want any empty pages then consider the openany class option and \clearpage in your code insteadb of the \clearto....

edited Nov 16 '19 at 19:57

answered Nov 16 '19 at 19:33

Peter Wilson

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That fixes the 1st instance, but adds another empty page for the subsequent chapters. Their illustration now has 1x empty page before, and another after. I added the screenshot to the question. And please, I did not make any design choices - this is copied from the linked question. I am merely trying to adapt it to the paper size I have. – SuperAl Nov 16 '19 at 19:36
I just tried \cleartoevenpage and it seemed to do the trick. – SuperAl Nov 16 '19 at 19:55
@SuperAl I have extended my answer. – Peter Wilson Nov 16 '19 at 19:56
@SuperAl I'm not sure what you want the layout to be. – Peter Wilson Nov 16 '19 at 20:15
Same as in the linked question, each chapter begins on an odd page and the preceding empty even page has a full page illustration. I do not want the illustrations to add any more empty pages. – SuperAl Nov 16 '19 at 20:30
@SuperAl But if the last page of a chapter is an even one there will be a blank page before the next even page where you want the illustration placed. Is your design criteria that an odd chapter page is always preceeded by an illustration on the preceeding facing even page? If so then this may well require a blank page before the illustration although you say that you do not want the illustrations to add any more empty pages. – Peter Wilson Nov 17 '19 at 18:57
That is exactly what my answer below achieves. – SuperAl Nov 17 '19 at 20:03
@PeterWilson -- Desired format seems to be the same as that of The TeXbook. – barbara beeton Apr 14 '20 at 23:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '19 at 21:02

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Based on another answer by David Carlisle, I ended up using \cleartoevenpage:

\newcommand\chapimage[1]{%
\cleartoevenpage 
\noindent\begin{picture}(0,0)%
\put(-55,-585){%
\includegraphics[width=0.95\stockwidth,height=0.95\stockheight]{#1}}%
\end{picture}
\clearpage}

answered Nov 16 '19 at 21:02

SuperAl

307

I see no difference in the output of your original MWE with \cleartoverso and one with \cleartoevenpage substituted. – Peter Wilson Nov 17 '19 at 18:57

Empty pages before the full-page illustrations on the odd page before the next chapter

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