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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:57:52+00:00

How to remove a blank page that gets added automatically after \part{} or \chapter{}

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How to remove a blank page that gets added automatically after \part{} or \chapter{} in a book document class?

I need to add some short text describing the \part. Adding some text after the part command results in at least 3 pages with an empty page between the part heading and the text:

  1. Part xx
  2. (empty)
  3. some text

How to get rid of that empty page?

P.S. Latex: How to remove blank pages coming between two chapters IN Appendix? is similar but it changes the behavior for the rest of the text while I need to remove the empty page for this one \part command only.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A solution that works:

    Wrap the part of the document that needs this modified behavior with the code provided below. In my case the portion to wrap is a \part{} and some text following it.

    \makeatletter\@openrightfalse
\part{Whatever}

Some text

\chapter{Foo}
\@openrighttrue\makeatother

    The wrapped portion should also include the chapter at the beginning of which this behavior needs to stop. Otherwise LaTeX may generate an empty page before this chapter.

    Source: folks at the #latex IRC channel on irc.freenode.net

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