\pagebreak vs \newpage

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What's the difference? I know that \pagebreak can take an optional argument that specifies how much a page break is desired, but is there any difference if the optional argument is not used?

See also the duplicate question What is the difference between “Page Break” and “New Page”? for potential additional answers. — Martin Scharrer, Feb 05 '20 at 10:32

score 254 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '20 at 20:40

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Both commands start a new page.

If the optional argument is not used, \pagebreak will start a new page and the paragraphs of the old page will be spread out so that the old page will not look like the end of a chapter.

With \newpage, on the other hand, the old page will have the blank space at the bottom, because the paragraphs will stick together as if the chapter had ended there.

This link will be useful, and the answer to a duplicate question (that was migrated from SO to this site later) gives the following example: alt text

edited Feb 11 '20 at 20:40

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answered Jul 31 '10 at 20:23

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Thanks! Not sure how I missed that SO question in my Googling, but I did… – Sophie Alpert Jul 31 '10 at 20:37
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@Ben: even if you had seen it, it is useful to have the answer here as well! – Vivi Jul 31 '10 at 20:39
@Juan: thanks... I wish I could take more of the credit, but the real work was done by the person who answer the SO question linked above :) – Vivi Aug 04 '10 at 09:38
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and you have the same difference between \newline and \linebreak on the line scale. – Caroline Fontaine Aug 10 '10 at 11:47
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Basically the same spacing differences exist for \linebreak vs. \newline. – Martin Scharrer Jul 06 '11 at 07:15
The "This" link seems to be broken. – abukaj Dec 31 '17 at 15:39

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '10 at 20:20

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\pagebreak tries to make the page the same height as other pages if it's possible (by stretching intervals between paragraphs etc) and \newpage just fills the page with empty space.

answered Jul 31 '10 at 20:20

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score 19 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '10 at 20:21

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\newpage forces a new page at the point at which it occurs.

\pagebreak without options forces a new page at the end of the line in which it occurs.

answered Jul 31 '10 at 20:21

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References: LaTeX/Command Glossary and LaTeX/Page Layout: Manual page formatting – marc-medley Feb 18 '20 at 01:02

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 05 '19 at 06:50

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If you really want the page to be changed, one of the most useful way I found so far is :

\clearpage
\pagebreak

answered Apr 05 '19 at 06:50

ZettaCircl

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 01 '21 at 22:19

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The multicols environment has \columnbreak, but it seems to behave more like \newpage than \pagebreak.

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