How to remove headers and footers for pages between chapters?

Question

To ensure that a new chapter starts on a right-hand page, the book class (and the report class with the options twoside and openright) will insert blank pages between chapters if necessary. However, these pages still contain the headers and footers as defined by the class. How can I remove those?

Note: I know that I can manually add \clearpage\thispagestyle{empty} at the appropriate points of my document. However, this seems awkward and is prone to fail if I change my document later. I'm looking for automatic solutions.

It is not enough to put \pagestyle{empty} where you do not want the headers, and then \pagestyle{your-page-style} to bring them back? — gdm, Mar 22 '14 at 09:37

score 95 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 05 '12 at 23:53

95

Use the emptypage package.

edited Mar 05 '12 at 23:53

lockstep

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answered Aug 13 '10 at 20:27

Lev Bishop

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I was about to ask for more information, but I realized there really isn't any necessary: Adding \usepackage{emptypage} removes headers and footers on empty pages. I was pleasantly surprised :) – Achal Dave Apr 27 '16 at 15:33
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@AchalDave Pleasantly surprised is an understatement! – King'ori Maina Jan 15 '17 at 13:03
Note that this also removes the page numbers. – Jon Feb 09 '17 at 10:33
@Jon but page numbers still increment. Any idea how to skip avoid this? Or is it bad practice? – jessexknight Apr 08 '20 at 11:53
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@JesseKnight It is a bad practice – CarLaTeX Apr 12 '20 at 20:44
I think you should add to the answer that it is just enough to load the package. – CarLaTeX Apr 12 '20 at 20:46
@CarLaTeX Thanks. I'm writing a thesis package, and the department has some odd requirements (e.g. TOC must be page "iii"). I'll try to talk them out of it... – jessexknight Apr 12 '20 at 20:51
@JesseKnight Use alphabetical numbering for the first pages before the main content is usual, don't worry :) – CarLaTeX Apr 12 '20 at 21:00

Stefan Kottwitz · Answer 2 · 2021-05-13T10:55:10.723

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You could redefine \cleardoublepage:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\cleardoublepage}{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
\hbox{}%
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\newpage%
\if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother

The fancyhdr package deals with this topic in its documentation. Have a look at section 20 Those blank pages on page 26.

edited May 13 '21 at 10:55

answered Aug 13 '10 at 20:26

Stefan Kottwitz

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This is not on page 26 (section 20). – MrVocabulary May 13 '21 at 08:58

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 23 '12 at 12:15

I believe this is the default behaviour for the memoir class.

It can be further (bizarrely) tailored by, for example

\cleartooddpage[\thispagestyle{companion}]

or

\cleartoevenpage[\thispagestyle{Ruled}]

but, sadly, not for \cleartorecto or cleartoverso

Slightly more diligent research show this: \cleartorecto and cleartoverso include this call:

 \thispagestyle{cleared}

The cleared memoir page style is defined by:

\aliaspagestyle{cleared}{empty}

and all is nicely described in section 7.2, "Page Styles" of the memoir manual (memman.pdf)

lockstep · Answer 4 · 2013-04-11T13:10:20.020

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The KOMA-Script classes allow to set the pagestyle of inserted "blank" pages with the option cleardoublepage (which defaults to empty). See section 3.13 of the KOMA-Script manual for details.

edited Apr 11 '13 at 13:10

answered Aug 13 '10 at 20:42

lockstep

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One can also tweak the styles directly by \ofoot etc. See scrguien.pdf – koppor Apr 11 '13 at 07:10

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 17 '13 at 13:28

2

the default behaviour for the ams document classes is to omit running heads from otherwise empty pages between chapters.

answered Jul 17 '13 at 13:28

barbara beeton

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 15 '20 at 12:01

KOMA Script

The KOMA-Script documentation lists in chapter 3.13 the following commands to move following content to the next right-hand page:

\clearpage
\cleardoublepage
\cleardoublepageusingstyle{pagestyle}
\cleardoubleemptypage
\cleardoubleplainpage
\cleardoublestandardpage
\cleardoubleoddpage
\cleardoubleoddpageusingstyle{pagestyle}
\cleardoubleoddemptypage
\cleardoubleoddplainpage
\cleardoubleoddstandardpage
\cleardoubleevenpage
\cleardoubleevenpageusingstyle{pagestyle}
\cleardoubleevenemptypage
\cleardoubleevenplainpage
\cleardoubleevenstandardpage

Available pagestyles can be found in chapter 3.12 of the documentation:

empty % don't show nothing
plain % just show page numbers
headings
myheadings

Usage

So if you want your content to start on the next right-hand page without any headers or footers on the left-hand page before, you could use \cleardoubleemptypage like so:

\chapter{My Old Chapter}
   Content goes here...

\cleardoubleemptypage % insert blank left-hand page
\chapter{My New Chapter}
   Content goes here ...

Source

The official documentation can be found here on ctan.org.

How to remove headers and footers for pages between chapters?

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