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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

777.0. "Blank Page From Document?" by COOKIE::CHAVEZ (Dale C. - CXO3 Colo Spgs) Fri Aug 07 1987 17:04

Is there a way for DOCUMENT to PHYSICALLY output a blank page?  I've 
designed a chapter-oriented style that numbers sequentially  and I need to 
have a blank page if the chapter ends on an odd page.

Thanks
Dale
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777.1To be blank or not to be blank, that's the questionIJSAPL::KLERKTheo de KlerkSat Aug 08 1987 14:1612
 Or better even, alternatively allow the mysterious text

    "This page is left blank intentionally"

 to appear on it, as our printing department, economizing where
 reasonable, might be too clever and remove those pages...

 P.S.
 Put this text in a \PAGEleftblank symbol so we can translate it!!!!!


Theo
777.2Auto page blank, yes! yes!COOKIE::JOHNSTONMon Aug 10 1987 13:0412
Dale, correct me if I am wrong, but part of the reason you posed the 
question in .0 is that DOCUMENT will stop a chapter on page-odd, 
then start the new chapter on page-even?

Theo's suggestion is a good suggestion.  It would be nice if it were 
automatic rather than a final cleanup task; i.e., if DOCUMENT took note 
that a chapter ended on an even page and then supplied the extra page 
with accompanying text.


Rose

777.3PYONS::TAVARESJohn--Stay low, keep movingMon Aug 10 1987 13:519
Really, I think that its more trouble than its worth to print
that blank page.  The only reason you want the code is to put in
a page number and the Intentionally Left Blank note.  This is a
holdover from classified documents, where each page must be
accounted for in a table.  The marking was simply for page
accounting purposes.  There is no need to go to the expense of
printing this page in any DEC manuals.  It should rightly be
simply a blank piece of paper.

777.4There *are* good reasons for allowing it...COOKIE::JOHNSTONMon Aug 10 1987 14:390
777.5We've all been here beforeCLOSET::ANKLAMMon Aug 10 1987 14:556
    
    See #309, in particular .3 and .4
    
    User control over even/odd blank/noblank pages is on the wishlist.
    
    -patti