Copyright page on back of title page

Question

I am trying to get the copyright page to print (or display) on the back of the title page. What is happening is that I get a blank page after the title page and then the copyright page opens on the right hand side. What I would like to do is eliminate the blank page immediately after the title page and have the copyright page print on the back of the title page.

I am using the memoir class (though Koma-script scrbook has the same behavior). Here is a minimum working example:

\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{bottom=1in}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\begin{center}
\huge{Los picapiedras}

\vspace{1 in}
\bigskip
f.flinstone
\end{center}
\end{titlingpage}

\frontmatter
\textit{Picapiedras}
here is the copyright page

\mainmatter

\lettrine{Y}{o estaba alojado} en un hotel 

\end{document}

Please check http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/12574/963 – yannisl May 13 '12 at 19:16 — yannisl, May 13 '12 at 19:16

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '12 at 19:02

You can locally stop \cleardoublepage making the blank page:

\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{bottom=1in}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\begin{center}
\huge{Los picapiedras}

\vspace{1 in}
\bigskip
f.flinstone
\end{center}
\end{titlingpage}


\begin{titlingpage}
\textit{Picapiedras}
here is the copyright page
\end{titlingpage}

\frontmatter

\mainmatter

\lettrine{Y}{o estaba alojado} en un hotel 

\end{document}

Gonzalo Medina · Answer 2 · 2012-05-13T19:09:27.007

You could use a \clearpage inside the titlingpage environment to have a new page for the copyright information:

\begin{titlingpage}
\begin{center}
\huge{Los picapiedras}

\vspace{1in}
\bigskip
f.flinstone
\end{center}\clearpage
\textit{Picapiedras}
here is the copyright page
\end{titlingpage}

However, the memoir documentation suggests not using the titlingpage environment:

However, I suggest that you ignore the titlingpage environment and just use regular LaTeX typesetting without any special environment.

So, you can simply say something like:

\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{bottom=1in}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{microtype}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\huge{Los picapiedras}

\vspace{1in}
f.flinstone
\end{center}
\clearpage
\textit{Picapiedras}
here is the copyright page
\clearpage

\frontmatter

\pagestyle{plain}
\mainmatter

\lettrine{Y}{o estaba alojado} en un hotel 

\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '20 at 21:21

As of 2020, I cannot find the suggestion not to use the titlingpage environment in the memoir documentation that @gonzalo-medina mentions in his answer.

What the docs now say is:

At the end of a titlingpage clearing code is issued, which can send you to the next page or the next right handed page. Using \titlingpageend{⟨twoside code⟩}{⟨oneside code⟩}, you can specify what this clearing code should be. The default is \cleardoublepage and \clearpage respectively.

In your case you could use:

\begin{titlingpage}
    ...
    \titlingpageend{\clearpage}{\clearpage}
\end{titlingpage}

This way, the copyright info can be outside the titlingpage environment and still print on the back of the title page (verso).

In this way, the counting of the page will be incorrect, resulting a blank page between the titleback page and the next section... — X.Arthur, Nov 07 '21 at 16:50

Copyright page on back of title page

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