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When using flushlefta blank page is added before my title page. I would like to remove this but am not sure how. I've read many of the similar "blank page" questions, but didn't find one related to my specific problem. When I remove \begin & \end{flushleft}, I don't get the extra blank page.

Here is my code:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,lmargin=2.54cm,rmargin=2.54cm}
\usepackage{lineno}%linenumbers

\begin{document}
\begin{spacing}{1.9}
\begin{flushleft}
\graphicspath{{Figures/}}

\title{Something}
\author{xxx}
\date{}
\maketitle

\linenumbers
\clearpage
\end{flushleft}
\end{spacing}
\end{document}
GodinA
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    Why do you need the flushleft (or the spacing) there? If you want them to apply to your title page, I'm afraid this is not the way to do it... If not, move the two \begins after the \maketitle command. – nickie Sep 09 '14 at 21:56
  • Ok well that was a quick fix! Thank you @nickie – GodinA Sep 09 '14 at 22:31
  • If your aim is to have raggedright typesetting, you should simply use the \raggedright declaration after \maketitle. Don't use a global spacing environment, but rather \setstretch{1.9}, at the same location. – egreg Sep 09 '14 at 23:38

2 Answers2

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Turning comment into answer:

  • use \raggedright
  • use \setstretch{1.9} instead of a spacing environment (assuming you really want such humongous leading)
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,lmargin=2.54cm,rmargin=2.54cm}
\usepackage{lineno}%linenumbers

\usepackage{lipsum} % mock text


\graphicspath{{Figures/}}


\setstretch{1.9}
\raggedright


\begin{document}


\title{Something}
\author{xxx}
\date{}
\maketitle


\linenumbers


\lipsum


\end{document}

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egreg
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Start the \flushleft after the title:

\begin{document}
\begin{spacing}{1.9}
\graphicspath{{Figures/}}

\title{Something}
\author{xxx}
\date{}
\maketitle
\flushleft
\linenumbers
\clearpage
\end{spacing}
\end{document}
Dimitrie Vatra
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    Definetely not, flushleft is an environment and should not be used as a macro. If a macro is needed then the proper macros is \raggedright – daleif Nov 18 '20 at 13:24