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Latex insert an empty or a blank page

Commands to insert an empty page (continuing page number) and a blank page (no continuing page number)., add an empty page.

The major part is \mbox{}, which ensures the existence of an empty page.Following page will continue with numbering.

Insert a blank page

In the preamble:

In the page after which you want a blank page:

The following page will not continue with the numbering.

• Table of contents Add an empty page

24. How can you add empty pages to the end of a document?

This may seem like an extremely trivial question, but rather to my astonishment it actually took me a while to figure out the answer.

The reason for wanting this in the first place is that Ponsen & Looijen (who printed my thesis) needed the manuscript submitted to them with the number of pages an exact multiple of 8. As I had a 189-page manuscript I had to fill out the document with three blank pages at the end in order to meet this requirement.

The problem is first that these pages needed to be absolutely blank (i.e. no headers or footers or page numbers), and second that L a T e X should not try to be clever and add more pages than are actually needed (which, when in two-page mode, it likes to do). In the end, the solution that worked for me is described below, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there must be an easier way.

Example usage

In the document:

Note: The \fancyhf{} commands clears the custom headers and footers installed by the fancyhdr package.

2 June 2102

An email correspondent provided what looks to be the 'easier way' I was looking for. His suggestion (untested by me) is to use the following:

• Latex how to insert a blank or empty page with or without numbering \thispagestyle,\newpage,\usepackage{afterpage}
• numérotation
• thispagestyle

how to insert a blank or empty page with or without numbering

How to insert a blank / empty page with numbering

To insert a blank page, you need to this:

The idea is that there is something empty or invisible (mbox hack)

How to insert blank / empty page without numbering

It is necessary to add in preamble the afterpage package and to define a macro for example \ myemptypage which will subtract one page to the counter:

Then you must use this macro in your LateX document:

this page will not be counted in your document.

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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 this page is still being randomly added. I've added the code below and an image of whats produced. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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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 page has been intentionally left blank" in those blank pages cleanly, i.e. without too many hacks?

Bonus points for including a different famous quote on each blank page instead of the dull default ;)

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• 8 Well this is like the paradox of the liar from Crete... :) –  Count Zero Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 13:03
• 2 To avoid the paradox, use "This page is intentionally printed only with this statement." –  kiss my armpit Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 18:22
• 2 I am using "This page is filler so that important sections start on the right hand side of the book." –  Eponymous Commented May 13, 2014 at 16:14
• 1 Another correct avoidance of the paradox: This page is unintentionally left not blank. –  teed Commented Nov 11, 2017 at 1:18
• 1 Late to the party, but: I've never understood what's wrong with: "This page intentionally not left blank." That's precisely what it is; you could have left it blank, but intentionally you wrote something to avoid so. –  Christopher.L Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 12:57

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You could redefine \cleardoublepage . Here's an example:

\blankpage just prints what you like, both vertically and horizontally centered.

• I guess the downside of this is that if \cleardoublepage changes at upgrade time, evil things could happen. Oh well, this is TeX, I don't expect much in terms of inheritance ;) –  Nikolai Prokoschenko Commented Aug 15, 2010 at 1:46
• 3 KOMA-Script and so scrbook define 14 such commands, from \clearpage to \cleardoubleevenstandardpage , so it could be further customized. ;) –  Stefan Kottwitz ♦ Commented Aug 15, 2010 at 1:51
• This works well for \mainmatter, but not for \frontmatter and \backmatter. Is there any tweak to do that for the whole document? –  Pygmalion Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 7:34
• I am using the book style. This works well for the last pages of each chapter. But I don't see such sentence appearing right after the \part pages in which we normally have nothing printed. –  enthu Commented Nov 9, 2014 at 15:40
• @EnthusiasticStudent Perhaps it doesn't use \cleardoublepage which has been redefined here. So you could hook into another macro at that place. –  Stefan Kottwitz ♦ Commented Nov 9, 2014 at 20:24

memoir has \cleartooddpage (and \cleartoevenpage ) which do just this. Paraphrased from the manual:

A likely example for the optional argument is \cleartooddpage[\vspace*{\fill} THIS PAGE ACCIDENTALLY PRINTED ON \vspace*{\fill}] which will put ‘THIS PAGE ACCIDENTALLY PRINTED ON’ in the centre of any potential skipped (empty) even numbered page.

I haven't seen an answer that handles correct centering in both horizontal and vertical direction. For analysis the answer of Stefan Kottwitz is taken:

\showlists stops the TeX run and displays the current vertical list. This is written into the .log file and, if \tracingonline is set to a positive number, it is also printed on the terminal.

Excerpt from the .log file:

Horizontal centering

The \hbox with the text starts with:

That means the left space is 0pt plus 1fil . \leftskip is set by \centering and the stretch component plus 1.0fil is needed for centering.

The box ends with:

Again the stretch component plus 1.0fil of \rightskip comes from \centering and is needed for centering. But there is a glue after the final dot:

That means there is extra white space at the end of the line. It comes from the space after the final dot before \vspace :

The paragraph has not yet ended, when \vspace is called. Therefore the space is not added directly, but via \vadjust . The following paragraph end usually removes the latest whitespace, thus that the latest line or white space before an emtpy line or \par does not need to be removed. However, the space before \vadjust is not seen by the paragraph end and appears in the output. This can be fixed by explicitely ending the paragraph:

Vertical centering

The bottom end looks fine:

Just the fill component is present. But at the upper part we can find some additional contributions to the vertical space:

New definition of \blankpage :

Excerpt from the .log file with \showlists for new \blankpage :

Support of twocolumn

With a small modification \blankpage will also work with twocolumn , when the text is put in the left column, but should be centered in the whole text area:

Loading package scrlayer you can define a layer page style blank

this page style will be used on all blank pages. It works also if you use open=left or twocolumn .

Note that package scrlayer-scrpage already loads scrlayer . But if really necessary you can use scrlayer together with the outdated scrpage2 or with fancyhdr .

If you are using a standard class instead a KOMA-Script class you can load scrextend to do the same:

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