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I prepare a book of short stories. There are no too long texts, each story takes no more than two pages. The customer asks to layout two-paged stories in such a way that they would be placed starting from an even page.

Now I've written a command that layouts a box of the title of a story and a box of full text of the story. The if their total height is greater than the height of the page, the current page number is checked and a page is skipped if necessary. Afterwards, the material is put: for the title its box is used, but the text is made up again.

In this scheme, the text is made up twice: at first, when I compute the height it takes, and at second, when it actually prepared for layout. Is it possible to optimize the process somehow?

Sergey Kumkov
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You can check the value of the page number, and add blank pages as needed.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\storytitle}[1]{%
  \clearpage% Move to next page
  \ifodd\value{page} \mbox{}\clearpage\fi% If page is odd, move to next page
  \section*{#1}% Set story title/heading
}

\begin{document}

\storytitle{First story}
\lipsum[1-7]

\storytitle{Second story}
\lipsum[8-10]

\storytitle{Third story}
\lipsum[11-16]

\storytitle{Last story}
\lipsum[17-24]

\end{document}
Werner
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  • Would it not be better to use either \clearpage or \cleardoublepage in the if? – Oleg Lobachev Dec 17 '17 at 20:13
  • @OlegLobachev: If you're using the twoside option, then the pages will be cleared to an odd page. So you'll have to do some work correcting for that either way. – Werner Dec 17 '17 at 20:27