Book (by default) and report (with openright
class
option) ensure that each chapter starts on a right-hand (recto) page;
they do this by inserting a \
cleardoublepage
command between
chapters (rather than a mere \
clearpage
). The empty page thus
created gets to have a normal running header, which some people don't
like.
The (excellent) fancyhdr manual covers this issue, basically
advising the creation of a command \
clearemptydoublepage
:
\let\origdoublepage\cleardoublepage \newcommand{\clearemptydoublepage}{% \clearpage {\pagestyle{empty}\origdoublepage}% }The "obvious" thing is then to use this command to replace
\
cleardoublepage
in a patched version of the chapter
command.
(Make a package of your own containing a copy
of the command out of the class.) This isn't particularly difficult,
but you can instead simply subvert \
cleardoublepage
(which isn't
often used elsewhere):
\let\cleardoublepage\clearemptydoublepageNote: this command works because
\
clearemptydoublepage
uses a copy
of \
cleardoublepage
: instructions on macro programming
patching techniques explain the problem and
why this is a solution.
Note that the KOMA-Script replacements for the
book amd report classes (scrbook and
scrreprt offers class options cleardoubleempty
,
cleardoubleplain
and cleardoublestandard
(using the running page style, as normal) that control the appearance
of these empty pages. The classes also offer do-it-yourself commands
\
cleardoubleempty
(etc.).
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