General ⇒ document structure

[Abu Noor El-Din]

Hi all,

I am writing my thesis using latex. I am editing in the book class (book.cls) of the TeXnicCenter.
I have a problem that every environment ends in an even page (I mean by environment here: chapter, contents, list of tables, list of figures). For example, a list of figures takes only onepage but the following page to it is also reserved to the list of figures also (so the result is empty page but with the headers and footers of the list of figure page) which is very annoying.

I hope if I manage to explain the problem well.

Thanks in advance.

[Juanjo]

To get an empty page, one possible solution is to redefine \cleardoublepage as follows:

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\let\cleardoublepageOriginal\cleardoublepage
\renewcommand{\cleardoublepage}%
  {\newpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepageOriginal}}

Put that in the preamble.

[gmedina]

The solution that Juanjo suggested will prevent the footers and headers from appearing in the additional pages. However, if you want to get rid of those pages, you can use the openany option for the book class, as the following example shows:

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\documentclass[twoside,openany]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{LEFT} 
\chead{CENTER}
\rhead{RIGHT}
\lfoot{left} 
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{right}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{1pt}
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.5pt}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\listoftables
\clearpage

\chapter{The first chapter}

\end{document} 

[Abu Noor El-Din]

To get an empty page, one possible solution is to redefine \cleardoublepage as follows:

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\let\cleardoublepageOriginal\cleardoublepage
\renewcommand{\cleardoublepage}%
  {\newpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepageOriginal}}

Put that in the preamble.

Thanks Juanjo. It is exactly what I want.

I may use \pagestyle{plain} instead of \pagestyle{empty} in order to write the page number on this blank page. But in text books is there a page number in this blank page?

[Abu Noor El-Din]

The solution that Juanjo suggested will prevent the footers and headers from appearing in the additional pages. However, if you want to get rid of those pages, you can use the openany option for the book class, [/code]

Thanks gmedina for your continuous help.