[Tex/LaTex] Make blank page after Table of Contents empty/plain

double-sidedheader-footertable of contents

I am preparing a document using the twoside class option.
The end of the Table of Contents falls such that an blank page is inserted so that the following section (List of Figures FWIW) falls on an odd page.
However, the blank page has headers (using fancyhdr), which I believe will look odd with no content, on a verso page, with the start of the List of Figures on the recto.

How can I make this page empty, or plain (i.e. with only a page number)?

I have tried using \thispagestyle{plain}, but it does not affect pages with the TOC.

Best Answer

Usually

\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\begingroup
  \pagestyle{empty}%
  \cleardoublepage
\endgroup
\listoffigures

does the trick (the manual version). Some classes have options for the page style of such pages:

Class memoir uses page style cleared. By default, it is defined using page style empty:
```
\aliaspagestyle{cleared}{empty}
```
But it can be changed to plain, fancyplain or whatever, e.g.:
```
\aliaspagestyle{cleared}{plain}
```
KOMAScript has an option cleardoublepage, which gets the page style as argument, e.g.:
```
cleardoublepage=plain
```

With other classes, \cleardoublepage can be redefined:

\newcommand*{\OriginalClearDoublePage}{}
\let\OriginalClearDoublePage\cleardoublepage
\renewcommand*{\cleardoublepage}{%
  \clearpage
  \begingroup
    \pagestyle{plain}%
    \OriginalClearDoublePage
  \endgroup
}

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The manual suggests \renewcommand{\cftafterZtitle}{\thispagestyle{empty}} where Z is the list type. In your case Z is equ so you should add

\renewcommand{\cftafterequtitle}{\thispagestyle{empty}}

to your preamble.

By the way, your command \myequations should end with \ignorespaces instead of \hfill so that following text doesn't necessarily start a new paragraph.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}

% the part responsible for creating creating the listofequations
\newcommand{\listequationsname}{} 
\newlistof{myequations}{equ}{\listequationsname} 
\newcommand{\myequations}[1]{% 
\addcontentsline{equ}{myequations}{\protect\numberline{\theequation}#1}\ignorespaces} 
\renewcommand{\cftafterequtitle}{\thispagestyle{empty}} 

\numberwithin{equation}{section}

\begin{document}

\section{A section}

If the sides of a right-angle triangle in the Euclidean plane have
lengths \( a \), \( b \), \( c \) with \( c \) the length of the
hypotenuse, then they are related by
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:Pyth}
  a^{2} + b^{2} = c^{2}.
\end{equation}
\myequations{Pythagoras' Theorem} Note that this equation has integer
solutions such as \( (a,b,c) = (3,4,5) \).  This should be contrasted
with Fermat's equation
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:Fermat}
  a^{n} + b^{n} = c^{n},\quad\text{for \( n\geqslant 3 \).}
\end{equation}
\myequations{Fermat's equation}

%displaying the list of equations
\clearpage
\subsection{Equations}
\listofmyequations 

\end{document}

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