RE: Is there a way to force the table of contents to an even page? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[James, Edward Mr DTSW/TCS]

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Jeff,

What I am doing is a phonebook. The finished product should be: page 1
TOC, page 2 second page of TOC, pages 3-19 phone listings.

When I run lout, I set "@FirstPageNumber" to 3. I get page i title, page
ii blank, pages 3-19 phone listings, pages 20 and 21 TOC.

I have a perl script that moves the TOC to pages i & ii and renumbers
them to 1 and 2.

Without "@ChapterStartPages { Odd }", the TOC on page 20 is a "left"
page; with it, the TOC on page 21 is a "right" page. All I have to do is
change the page numbers and move the Postscript to the front.

(1) Yes. Is what I want better explained now?
(2) I will test using this. Will the TOC still come out at the back?
(3) I don't think I am tied to "book."  If possible could you send me a
sample of your lout code and changes to setup file(s)?

Thank you,

Ed

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> Subject: Re: Is there a way to force the table of contents to 
> an even page?
> 
> I know you said that @ChapterStartOdd was exactly what you 
> needed, but I'm
> concerned that there is still some confusion.
> 
> > I can move the TOC to i and ii and change the "data" page numbers to
> > start with 3, but the TOC is a left/right format instead of 
> right/left.
> 
> (1) If the TOC is on pages i and ii, then it starts on a 
> right page and
> continues to a left page.  By a universal convention, always followed
> everywhere, odd-numbered pages are right pages.
> 
> (2) The Book package has an option which allows all pages to 
> be numbered
> in a singled sequence, i.e. no Roman numerals.  It sounds 
> like you need
> that option.  The option is called
> 
>     @SeparateIntroNumbering
> 
> and you need to set its value to No.  You can do this by making your
> own setup file, following the instructions in the User's Guide,
> Section 4.1, and changing the option in that file.
> 
> (3) Are you sure that book is the right package?  I've never heard
> of a book with a table of contents on page 1.  Perhaps you are really
> making a technical report that happens to have a table of contents.
> Lout's report package can do that, although you have to set a few
> options to get what you want.  I myself often make a technical report
> with a table of contents on the first page.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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