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.

Answer 1

Use the emptypage package.

Answer 2

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 pages 27–28.

Answer 3

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

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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)

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.