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Marei
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Avoiding blank page between bibliography and appendix

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Latex produces a blank page with only a page number after the end of my bibliography and before my appendixes. I don't wan't this blank page, what should I do?
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pumpkinegan
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Re: Blank page problem

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There is probably a \clearpage or \newpage somewhere. Check the end of the bbl file. Are you using \appendix to signal the start of appendixes---make sure there is no \clearpage or \newpage around it? Would you post some (skeletal) code?

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Avoiding blank page between bibliography and appendix

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I'm afraid there's no \newpage anywhere near my bibliography or appendixes.

This is my preamble:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,norsk]{report}
\pdfpagewidth 210mm
\pdfpageheight 297mm
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{ccaption}
\usepackage{color}
And here's what comes at the end of my document:

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\begin{thebibliography}{99} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliografi}

(My bibliography)

\end{thebibliography}

\chapter*{Filmografi}\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Filmografi}

\begin{description}

(My list of films. A stupid way to make a filmography, probably, but...)

\end{description}

(Here latex inserts a blank page. I have no idea why. I thought maybe it did it by default?)

\appendix

\chapter{Bilde- og karaktergalleri}

{\footnotesize
\begin{picture}(150,300)

(My pics that I inserted with \includegraphics)

\end{picture}
}
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Re: Blank page problem

Post by Marei »

By coincidence I just found that strangely enough this blank page only appears when I insert my picture environment.
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Avoiding blank page between bibliography and appendix

Post by localghost »

Marei wrote: By coincidence I just found that strangely enough this blank page only appears when I insert my picture environment.

Why do you use that strange code to insert your pictures? I assume the unit parameters of the picture environment were set to 1mm or something like that. But even if done so, the picture environment is too big to fit on a page.

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\appendix

\chapter{Bilde- og karaktergalleri}

{\footnotesize
\begin{picture}(150,300)

(My pics that I inserted with \includegraphics)

\end{picture}
}
And that might be the cause of the problem. I suggest to use a figure environment with nested subfigures provided by the subfig package.

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\begin{figure}[!ht]     % or maybe [!p] to put the pictures on a page without any text
  \subfloat[Caption for subfigure 1\label{subfig-1:pictures}]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{pic01}}
  \subfloat[Caption for subfigure 2\label{subfig-2:pictures}]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{pic02}}
  …
  \caption{Caption for all pictures}\label{fig:pictures}
\end{figure}
For further information on aligning the subfigures refer to the documentation of the subfig package.
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