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I have a two-sided thesis, and tables of contents page numbering is roman and the chapter 1 starts with arabic page numbering.

I set higher margin for odd pages, but I dealt with two pages in a row with odd and long margin. I know that \pagenumbering{arabic} always sets the first page odd, however I want to make it flexible to be odd or even depending on the size of the table of contents.

Please help me in this case. Thank you.

barbara beeton
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    it's usual for the first real chapter of a book or report to start on a right-hand (odd) page, and theses typically follow one of those styles. so it might make more sense to add a blank page, if necessary, between the contents page and the start of the main body. that's what \mainmatter does in many book-format document classes (in addition to changing page numbers to arabic). – barbara beeton Jan 05 '15 at 21:43
  • Thank you for your answer. I also solved it by "manually" putting one blank page at the end of table of contents (TOC). However, this requires the knowledge of TOC size in advance. I wish there was a latex trick or command to "automatically" solve this problem. – user35555 Jan 06 '15 at 22:34
  • \cleardoublepage should do what is needed -- if the toc ends on a left-hand page, it simply goes to the next right-hand page, but if the toc ends on a right-hand page, it adds a blank. – barbara beeton Jan 06 '15 at 22:38
  • The problem with \cleardoublepage is that it forces all chapters to start from the odd page, and as a result 50% chance of blank page before each chapter. I personally don't want to see any empty pages there. – user35555 Jan 06 '15 at 23:19
  • no, i wasn't suggesting to do it everywhere, just immediately after the toc. – barbara beeton Jan 06 '15 at 23:33
  • Actually my thesis has Acknowledgment after toc. So, after putting \cleardoublepage after Acknowledgement and before \chapter{First}, what happened was that Acknowledgement got arabic page number 1 while I was expecting it to be roman (xli). I wanted to see page number 1 for the Chapter first which was immediately after \mainmatter. Anyways, it seems that the more work I do on the latex code the worse result do I get. So, I stuck with the old idea of manually adding a page before \chapter{First}. Thank you for your answers. – user35555 Jan 07 '15 at 09:41

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