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Article #10363\special and \newpage in LaTeX
From: Bruce Krulwich
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:40
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:40
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Page 91 of the LaTeX book says in discussing \newpage:
To generate a blank page, you must put some invisible
text on it, such as an empty \mbox.
I've been including postscript into LaTeX documents, and it seems that a
\special (which includes postscript, such as \special{psfile=...} under DVIPS)
is not enough to force a blank page. Thus, if I want a page with only a
postscript figure on it, I have to add an empty mbox.
This seems wrong -- it seems to me that a \special should be considered
"potential text" for the purposes of \newpage.
Has this been discussed before? Is there a reason for it to be the way it is?
Bruce Krulwich
krulwich@ils.nwu.edu
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