Questions tagged [blank-page]

{blank-page} is about creating and handling blank pages in (La)TeX

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Add a quote to a blank page centered

I would like to start my thesis with a blank page with a quote of a famous scientist. I however do not find an elegant way to create the following in a estecially pleasing way (a larger font, stylish quotes). Key points: Insert blank page with…
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create a blank page

I want to create a blank page. I looked up on the web and I tried the code: \newcommand\blankpage{% comando pagina vuota \newpage \null \thispagestyle{empty}% \addtocounter{page}{-1}% \newpage } but it doesn't work. I have also…
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Adding empty pages to fill up a book page quota

I am writing a book and have already made contract for x pages with the printing company, so I want to create a PDF containing x pages. However, say that I only have material enough to fill x − y pages. Is there some package or simple hack available…
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“This page intentionally left blank” after \part

I sometimes use the following snippet to add a note to empty pages saying that they were intentionally left blank --- I'm not 100% sure where exactly it's from, but similar snippets can be found in various questions and answers, e. g. in How do I…
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How to remove blank page after title page in LaTex?

I'm trying to use LaTeX to create a document but a random page is created after the front page and I'm not sure of the best way to remove it. As you can see in the document class I've added openany which should make the document one-sided and yet…
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If No Image Is Found, An Empty Page Will Be Removed

I tried to do the following code... what I want is that Latex will remove the second page if there is no "image2" in the directory that I'm using (I want it to be such a "dynamic" doc), is it…
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Remove blank page between last chapter and appendix?

I'm having this problem: last chapter [annoying blank page] appendix I tried solving it by looking up for some answers here but nothing seems to work for me. Please help me. Thanks. (below is the…
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Preventing `\mainmatter` from inserting a blank page

\mainmatter seems to sometimes force a blank page if the current contents (the place where \mainmatter is called) are on an odd numbered page. openany and oneside do not seem to work here. They only work when opening a new chapter, but not when the…
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Deleting some blank pages from the document

I'm using the Legrand Orange Book template and I notice some blank pages, but I'd like to delete them. I had to remove the term \thispagestyle{empty} from the main.tex file, but it did not happen what I wanted. To delete these blank pages should i…
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Why does [pdf]latex not produce a page when nothing is in the body?

Having a blank PDF file may be useful for a certain situation that I don't know. Neither \documentclass{minimal} \begin{document} \end{document} nor \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \end{document} produce a page when each of them is…
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Phantom or blank pages between chapters

I am setting a book for Springer using their style sheet and have hit a problem where I am getting phantom pages between chapters. The complete book comprises front matter, toc, list of tables, 36 chapters, 6 appendices and an index (around 700…
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Unwanted Blank Front Page in article class

I am getting an unwanted first page in both the article and Koma-Script article classes and I can't figure out why. Here's the bare bones MWR: \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,oneside]{article} %scrartcl class also…
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blank page not created

I create a blank page using \newcommand\blankpage{ %comando pagina vuota \null \thispagestyle{empty}% \addtocounter{page}{-1}% \newpage} Here it is one my…
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Insert blank page before TOC

I have been trying to put a blank page before the table of contents, but Latex seems to ignore \newpage or \doubleclearpage. The only thing that worked was \afterpage{\null\newpage} of the package afterpage, with a problem though: it inserted two…
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Put two blank page after table of content

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report} %\usepackage[square,comma,numbers]{natbib} \usepackage[square,sort&compress,comma,numbers]{natbib} \usepackage[sectionbib]{chapterbib} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{caption} \usepa…
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