How to make \section start automatically in new page, except first in a chapter

Question

I am working in report class. I would like to redefine \section so that it starts on a new page, except for the first section in every chapter.

It seems I should just put code from this answer Start new page with each section together with some conditional like \if not firstsection then... but I do not know how to do that properly.

Any help is very appreciated.

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 06 '12 at 22:26

19

Here's one possible solution using the etoolbox package and a conditional :

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\pretocmd{\section}{%
  \ifnum\value{section}=0 \else\clearpage\fi
}{}{}

\begin{document}

\chapter{First Chapter}
\section{Section One One}
\section{Section One Two}
\section{Section One Three}

\end{document}

edited Mar 06 '12 at 22:26

egreg

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answered Mar 06 '12 at 21:53

Gonzalo Medina

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might you want \clearpage instead? – cmhughes Mar 06 '12 at 22:16
@cmhughes: yes, if floats are involved, it could be safer; thanks. – Gonzalo Medina Mar 06 '12 at 22:20
\preto is simpler – egreg Mar 06 '12 at 22:27

How to make \section start automatically in new page, except first in a chapter

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