Re: Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Attached is a simple file that demonstrates this. As is, it does not
> leave a blank page. But if you remove the num:nil option from the
> second line of this file, you do get a blank page.
>

Not for me: in both cases, I get a blank page 3.

> You (probably) need koma-article class for this. (I didn't install
> anything. It just worked for me.) You don't need the images.
>

You need *some* images in order to compile it. I just replaced all
the image links with

[[./foo.png]]

where foo.png is the emacs logo.

And my koma-article is a copy of the article class, except the document class
is "scrartcl" instead of "article".

> -pd
>

> On 2/28/14, 8:21 PM, Peter Davis wrote:
>>
>> On 2/28/14, 7:38 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> John is correct, I think, although latex's behavior in leaving an empty
>>> page does not make much sense to me. Nevertheless, when I reduce
>>> the height of the last image to less than about 7.85 inches, the empty
>>> page goes away. AFAICT, num: and toc: settings do not affect this
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Nick, but I have confirmed that adding num:nil eliminates
>> the blank page, and removing that re-introduces the blank page. No
>> other changes to the .org file were made. I was wondering if LaTeX
>> has some predisposition to handle numbered section headings
>> differently from unnumbered ones as far as pagination.
>>
>> I'll try to make a simple, clean sample that reproduces it, but it's
>> going to take some trial-and-error testing.
>>
>> -pd
>>

-- 
Nick