General ⇒ No page break after \listoffigures

[mro]

I want to save a few cents and not have a "list of tables" with only three entries on an extra page.
I first have the list of figures followed by the list of tables and would like the page break in between eliminated.
I tried something easy like this, to no avail.

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...
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\nobreak
\nopagebreak
%\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\listoftables
...

Any ideas? Unfortunately, Google was not very helpful. (Not sure anyhow which command finally inserts the pagebreak, \listoffigures, or \listoftables, or... ?).

[daleif]

full minimal example please

we do not know anything about what document class you are using, so please provide a fully compilable minimal example

[mro]

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper,english]{book}

\usepackage{float}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \caption{Fig 1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
  \caption{Fig 2}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
  \caption{Tbl 1}
\end{table}
\begin{table}
  \caption{Tbl 2}
\end{table}

\cleardoublepage
\listoffigures

\nobreak
\nopagebreak
% dont want break here

%\cleardoublepage
\listoftables

\end{document}

[phi]

I see two possibilities.
1. Switch to a document class that is more flexible (like memoir)
2. Temporarily redefine \cleardoublepage:

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\begingroup
\let\cleardoublepage\relax
\listoftables
\endgroup

[daleif]

Form the book.cls source

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\newcommand\listoffigures{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\listfigurename}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
    \@starttoc{lof}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }

which explains it (\chapter*)

I agree with phi as to what you should do.

[mro]

Thanks guys. At some point I will have to familiarize myself more deeply with these latex internals

[illes.solt]

For the report document class, one has to redefine \clearpage macro (while book uses \cleardoublepage as was discussed above):

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\clearpage
\begingroup
  \let\cleardoublepage\relax  % book
  \let\clearpage\relax        % report
  \listoftables
  \listoffigures
\endgroup