Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Lost blank pages. How to have them back?

[alexis1704]

Hi,

I personally don't really know how, but all the blank pages after the front page, declaration, abstract etc.. are gone. How do I get them back again? I tried to force with a \newpage after the title page for example but is not working.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I guess you changed document class options. Did you use oneside or openany as options? You could remove them to keep the default class settings, or change to twoside and openright.

Stefan

[alexis1704]

Hi Stefan, I checked but I didn't. Can you see the problem from the code?

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Interviewer: Alessandro Charalambis$^{3}$}\\
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$^{2}$CEO of CRP Group, Via Cesare Della Chiesa 21, Modena, Italy\\
    $^{3}$MSc. Candidate in Engineering Management at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark}\\
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[Stefan Kottwitz]

The main problem is: you changed the .cls file. You should never change it, only the main.tex file or .tex files in general. There's nothing to fill in to the .cls file. The .cls file provides the set of macro and settings, the template that you can change is the.tex file.

Here in the forum, you can get support from authors of that thesis class, Johannes and Vel, but I assume he or they would not support it if it's modified. Actually, the license allows free using but modifying only if a different class name is used.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

You might be interested in How to customize my titlepage.

Package subfigure is deprecated for more than ten years. It should not be used. Instead, you can use package subcaption. It plays well with the already loaded caption-package.

Having said that, it would be nice if you could change the file name and clearly mark the changes. I would not be happy if anyone mailed me and said: What's up with you, why do you have that old stuff in that class file.


Thanks.


In order to know why the blank pages are gone, we really would need to see a minimal working example. Since you modified the class, a zip file uploaded as attachment to the forum would work best.