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<span id="g_t_0040setchapternewpage_003a-Blank-Pages-Before-Chapters"></span><h4 class="subsection">3.7.2 <code>@setchapternewpage</code>: Blank Pages Before Chapters</h4>
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<p>In an officially bound book, text is usually printed on both sides of
the paper, chapters start on right-hand pages, and right-hand pages have
odd numbers. But in short reports, text often is printed only on one
side of the paper. Also in short reports, chapters sometimes do not
start on new pages, but are printed on the same page as the end of the
preceding chapter, after a small amount of vertical whitespace.
</p>
<p>You can use the <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command with various
arguments to specify how TeX should start chapters and whether it
should format headers for printing on one or both sides of the paper
(single-sided or double-sided printing).
</p>
<p>Write the <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command at the beginning of a
line followed by its argument.
</p>
<p>For example, you would write the following to cause each chapter to
start on a fresh odd-numbered page:
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<pre class="example">@setchapternewpage odd
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<p>You can specify one of three alternatives with the
<code>@setchapternewpage</code> command:
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt><code>@setchapternewpage off</code></dt>
<dd><p>Cause TeX to typeset a new chapter on the same page as the last
chapter, after skipping some vertical whitespace. Also, cause TeX to
format page headers for single-sided printing.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@setchapternewpage on</code></dt>
<dd><p>Cause TeX to start new chapters on new pages and to format page
headers for single-sided printing. This is the form most often used for
short reports or personal printing. This is the default.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@setchapternewpage odd</code></dt>
<dd><p>Cause TeX to start new chapters on new, odd-numbered pages
(right-handed pages) and to typeset for double-sided printing. This is
the form most often used for books and manuals.
</p></dd>
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<p>Texinfo does not have a <code>@setchapternewpage even</code> command,
because there is no printing tradition of starting chapters or books on
an even-numbered page.
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<p>If you don’t like the default headers that <code>@setchapternewpage</code>
sets, you can explicit control them with the <code>@headings</code> command.
See <a href="_0040headings.html"><code>@headings</code></a>.
</p>
<p>At the beginning of a manual or book, pages are not numbered—for
example, the title and copyright pages of a book are not numbered. By
convention, table of contents and frontmatter pages are numbered with
roman numerals and not in sequence with the rest of the document.
</p>
<p>The <code>@setchapternewpage</code> has no effect in output formats that do
not have pages, such as Info and HTML.
</p>
<p>We recommend not including any <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command in
your document source at all, since such desired pagination is not
intrinsic to the document. For a particular hard copy run, if you
don’t want the default output (no blank pages, same headers on all
pages) use the <samp>--texinfo</samp> option to <code>texi2dvi</code> to
specify the output you want.
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