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How to remove headers and footers for pages between chapters?

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, ...
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How do I make pages which were "intentionally left blank"?

I have a scrbook document with an openright option, i.e. every once in a while a blank left page appears in the document. Not that I really want to do this, but how could I include the infamous "This ...
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Insert a blank page after current page

I want to insert a blank page in a document so that the text would be added to the content of the current page till it reaches end of the page, the next page would be empty, and the text continue from ...
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Add a new empty page

I have a .tex file which is like my main, \documentclass[spanish]{article} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[...
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How I can automatically add a page if the total number of pages is odd?

I need automatically add a blank page (also without document header, numbering and footer) at the end of the document, if the total numbers of pages is odd. How I can do that? And preferably without ...
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How to remove a blank page "before" the title page

I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXniCenter for writing my thesis. I have a lot of packages and everything was going well, until last night that a blank page with ".0" written in the top left corner kept ...
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Blank pages getting inserted between figures

I have been trying with no success to find out what is causing this problem, im using \documentclass{report} \usepackage{appendix} \renewcommand{\appendixname}{APÉNDICE} \renewcommand{\...
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Trouble with Bible Style page header lines

I'm attempting to typeset a Bible for my mom and I'm running into a few problems and I was hoping someone here could help. First I'll start with the easy question. I'm currently using two columns ...
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Landscape A3 page in Portrait A4 Document - adds a blank page or reorients previous page - please help!

I've got an landscape A3 page in an A4 document, but the way I've written the code, it requires a blank page, or orients the previous page landscape too. Can anyone advise? Also, is there an easy ...
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How to remove empty page after appendix and the next chapter?

I am using LaTeX for my thesis and I am getting a blank page after Appendix and the next chapter. My document class is book: \documentclass[a4paper,oneside,12pt]{book} I have tried inserting the ...
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Suppressing addition of blank page before figure when wrapping long JPEG image

I have the following LaTeX file, whose sole purpose is to wrap a JPEG file. This file does not convert well to PDF, so I'm using this unorthodox technique to convert it. \documentclass{article} \...
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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 ...
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How to have a blank even page before every chapter

I've started to use Latex to create a book. I feel like I've gotten the basics down, but I am still very much at the beginning of my learning curve. Google has been a great resource, but I have not ...
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Blank pages after \include in LaTeX report class

I'm writing my thesis as several separate chapters and incorporating them into one .tex file. Some of the chapters are pdfs of articles, and they are simply added to my master.tex using \input. ...
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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}% ...
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How can I remove the blank page after the main title Appendix

I am using a thesis template. My problem is similar to How to remove empty page after appendix and the next chapter? Yes, I have tried all those solutions but no one works for my template. The ...
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How do I get a blank column?

I'm trying to create a program (i.e. the paper kind you hand out) in LaTeX. I've got \documentclass[landscape, letterpaper] and I'm running into problems with the columns. I've tried multicol, ...
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blank page shows up after adding \usepackage[pdfpagelabels]{hyperref}

I have index.tex that I made a copy of it. renamed the copy to index_bad.tex, and added the line \usepackage[pdfpagelabels]{hyperref} to its preamble. So the 2 files are identical other than this ...
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Ensure last page is even and blank [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How I can automatically add a page if the total number of pages is odd? I am writing a report in two-sided mode. Report is based on the erdcclass file (with modifications), so ...
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How do I write “This page intentionally left blank.” in memoir with custom chapter styles?

Solved by inserting this in the preamble (made by touhami from the comments): \makeatletter \def\clearforchapter{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else \hbox{}\vfill\begin{center}This page ...
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Quote a dictum in Chinese in a new page before my thesis in English

To quote a dictum in Chinese in a new page before my thesis in English, I would like to combine the answers to the two post Add a quote to a blank page centered and How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?....
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Per-chapter blank page disappears after Chapter 2

I use LaTeX with the document class book. I´d like a blank page between chapters but it works only after Chapter 1. I've tried to force a blank page with \newpage, \clearpage and \cleardoublepage and ...
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Avoiding page numbers in empty pages? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove head- and footlines for pages between chapters? I have empty pages in my document, many created using \cleardoublepage. I want the page number not to appear in ...
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How do I create 'n' blank pages

I need to insert a variable number (up to 40) of plain style pages into a document. Not inserting pdf's. I am aware of how to do this with a single page (see MWE) but is there a way to do it with 'n' ...
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\includegraphics forces new page

When I include a PDF diagram, it forces a new page, so I have one blank page and then this diagram, can somebody help me please? I need to remove that blank page. My document looks like this \...
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Deleting blank page after title page

Using amsbook, I get a blank white page after the title page and before the TOC. Any way to delete this page? Many thanks. Here is a MWE, for what it's worth: \documentclass[openany]{amsbook} \...
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Is it possible to remove an empty white page due to inserting a too large picture? [duplicate]

From searching here, I have understood than when inserting a picture too large for the available space, even on an empty page, the picture will be put on the next page. However, leaving a page empty ...
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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 ...
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How to insert a blank page or other annotation space next to each page

For a questionaire-alike document, I want to add a blank page next to every other page. These pages must get the default headers, footers etceteras and should be included in the page numbering. This ...
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Remove unnecessary blank page after creating an appendix

Declaring appendices, an unnecessary blank page is created immediately after. Leaving a 1-page break before the first appendix!? How can this blank page be removed. MWE below. \documentclass[twoside]...
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Landscape with table adds an extra blank page when setting \topskip

Consider the following MWE. I have a chapter with a table in landscape mode. Together with the second chapter, this results in three pages. However, when adding \topskip 0pt to the landscape ...
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remove blank pages from ClassicThesis

I am using ClassicThesis in LyX. I have problems with the autogeneration of blank pages in the template. At the moment a blank page is inserted infront of a chapter if the chapter would have started ...
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Put a full image before some chapters

I want to put some full page images in substitution of blank pages before chapters. I know exactly where to put them and what image to put. For example: at page 74 (a left page), before chapter 12 ...
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How to remove an empty Page between sections with large pictures?

I have a strange behavior of LaTeX inserting blank Pages between Sections. I have added very big Picturens (Data sheets) to the Appendix off my Dokument. I scaled / cropped them so they fit on a Page ...
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Full page table template

I am making a manual with LaTeX and at the end of the manual I want to insert a full-page blank table where I can have people sign to acknowledge that they have read the manual. Currently I am doing ...
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Remove blank page after TOC and title page

I am using the book document class and want to remove the blank pages it is adding after my title and after my TOC. I don't care to have any blank pages in this whole document actually, however these ...
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Document on recto page but numeration on both recto and verso

Last month I met a friend of mine which was writing her master thesis (with Word) and she said me that her supervisor told her that the thesis must have been oneside but the numeration must have been ...
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How to remove blank page before my new report chapter?

This problem started after I added the following code in the preamble to set the default chapter title font ("INTRODUCTION" in the following code), which was big, bold and brash that I did not like, ...
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How to center a table wider than `\textwidth` in `pdflscape` in LaTeX?

I made a table wider than \textwidth in pdflscape in LaTeX, so I put it in a new geometry with \newgeometry. After the table, I restored the geometry with restoregeometry. But there is a blank before ...
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Prevent page break of full-text-area graphic inclusion

I want to include a picture with width=\textwidth and height=\textheight. In the following MWE, the picture is not placed in the desired page. It produce one blank page first and then the picture. If ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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\pagestyle{plain} between chapters without page number after titlepage?

I've found numerous posts about removing the header/footer on the blank pages between chapters, and they work fine with one big exception... I need a \pagestyle{plain} (i.e. single centered pg#) at ...
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Unwanted blank page inserted after longtable

I am completing a scientific report, and have a long risk asessment. I have used the longtable environment to put the table over 2 pages. However, at the end of the table, which fits comfortably on ...
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Why do I get an unnecessary blank page between abstract and acknowledgement?

There is an unnecessary blank page between abstract and acknowledgement. The content of abstract.tex is between \begin{abstract} and \end{abstract}. The content of ack.tex starts with \chapter*{...
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"Page intentionally left blank" with twoside openright

I'm using twoside,openright in my document class, and I'm wondering how to have "Page intentionally left blank" text on the pages that openright makes blank. I've seen people redefining \...
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\begin{flushleft} creates a blank page before title page

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 ...
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Blank page before titlepage using indented sections

I'm trying to indent all my contents except for all headings. I tried using the method described in this method for indenting all the normal text. However, if I combine it with either a \title command ...
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Empty Last Page in IEEE Conference Format

I am writing a conference paper with a preamble like this. \documentclass[conference, 10pt, letterpaper, twoside, twocolumn, final]{IEEEtran} The conference has a page limit of five pages. After a ...
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Latex, remove blanks between sections in a chapter [closed]

I am writing thesis with 10 chapters, each of them has multiple sections. In Latex, I put each section in a separate file. But, there are blank spaces between sections in each chapter in the pdf ...
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