[Tex/LaTex] \newpage, \pagebreak, and \clearpage within a set of flashcards

flashcardspage-breaking

I am using the flashcards document class, with the avery5371 option that produces ten double-sided 2"x3.5" cards per page of letterpaper geometry.

When I make changes to some cards, rather than reprint the whole set of cards and discard those without changes, I would like to move the new cards to the end of the list and print them alone. It would be helpful, therefore, to be able to start a new page of output before the changed cards begin. But I find that the three commands I know of for starting a new page, \newpage, \pagebreak, and \clearpage, all fail to produce the desired result. The grid of ten cards per sheet continues past these commands unbroken.

Any suggestions on how to get a new page? The last-ditch solution is to start a new file with the changed cards.

Best Answer

Instead of forcing the modified cards to appear in a new page, you could comment the unmodified ones, so they don't show; this can be done with the comment environment from the comment package; a little example (uncommenting-out the line \includecomment{comment} you can recover all the cards):

\documentclass[avery5371]{flashcards}
\usepackage{comment}

%\includecomment{comment}

\begin{document}

\begin{comment}
\begin{flashcard}{Test one}
Test one
\end{flashcard}

\begin{flashcard}{Test two}
Test two
\end{flashcard}
\end{comment}

\begin{flashcard}{Test three}
Test three
\end{flashcard}

\begin{comment}
\begin{flashcard}{Test four}
Test four
\end{flashcard}
\end{comment}

\begin{flashcard}{Test five}
Test five
\end{flashcard}

\end{document}

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Both commands start a new page.

If the optional argument is not used, \pagebreak will start a new page and the paragraphs of the old page will be spread out so that the old page will not look like the end of a chapter.

With \newpage, on the other hand, the old page will have the blank space at the bottom, because the paragraphs will stick together as if the chapter had ended there.

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Technically there is nothing wrong with using \clearpage instead of \newpage. However, the two commands have different semantics and the question is which of the semantics you are interested in.

First of all, as you already mentioned \clearpage not only ends the page, but additionally it flushes out all floats that have been deferred. On the face of it that might be a good idea but consider the following situation: you have one float waiting which is just 1/3 of the page size. Now with \newpage you start a new page and then the float algorithm (see description of this algorithm for details) would kick in and try to place waiting floats onto the next page (and most likely would assign the waiting float to the top area of the next page. In contrast \clearpage would also output this float but on a page of its own.

So in situations like a chapter start it is advisable to end the previous chapter with a \clearpage (or rather start the new one with it) to flush out all floats, but in other situations this might result fairly empty pages with only floats on them which may or may not be desired.

A second difference is \clearpage actually always starts a new “page”, while \newpage really only ends the current column – and that is a big difference in twocolumn mode. Just try the following to see the difference:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\begin{document}
A test
\newpage              % ends first column but not page
A second test
\newpage

A clearpage test
\clearpage             % ends page (which has one column)
A second clearpage test
\end{document}

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