[Tex/LaTex] Pagebreak after titlepage

abstractpage-breakingtitles

I have now made a titlepage in my document using

\begin{titlepage}
stuff
\end{titlepage}

and that is fine, but now when I tried to insert a blank page after the titlepage and before

\begin{abstract}
stuff
\end{abstract}

Latex will not listen and put a blank page there! Can someone help me to do this?

P.S. I have no idea whether using the titlepage environment is "good" practice when using Latex, so if anyone has comments on that, they are most welcome.

P.P.S. The relevant stuff from my preamble is

\documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 11pt]{report}

P.P.P.S. MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 11pt]{report}

%irrelevant stuff

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}

some nonsense

\end{titlepage}

%Tried \pagebreak,\clearpage,\newpage,combinations thereof

\begin{titlepage}

Abstract 

\end{titlepage}

%Tried as above

\tableofcontents

Some more text

\end{document}

Best Answer

Using \cleardoublepage will here fill in a blank page. It ensures that the next content, whatever it might be, is on the rightside.

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\documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 11pt]{report}

%irrelevant stuff

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}

some nonsense

\end{titlepage}

\cleardoublepage

\begin{titlepage}

Abstract 

\end{titlepage}

%Tried as above

\tableofcontents

Some more text

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to include abstract into titlepage

You could misuse the \publishers element:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,abstracton,titlepage]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\titlehead{University}
\title{Title}
\subject{Subject}
\author{Author}

\publishers{%
    \normalfont\normalsize%
    \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
    }
}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

Since it’s value normally is centered an in \Large you have to put in it a \parbox of the desired width and set the font back to \normalsize (the \normalfont is a little superfluous here but does no harm at all).

result

If this doesn’t fits your needs on can redefine {abstract} and \maketitle to let the first collect and store it’s contest and the latter print out the content. But this would be an equal effort as making the title page manually. And only gainful if you need this in more than one or two documents …

Update

How to misuse the \date field to make the abstract appear higher on the page?

\date{%
    \today% thats the default I guess
    \\[2\baselineskip]% Space between date and abstract
    \normalfont\normalsize%
    \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. 
        Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
    }
}

There’s only the little problem that the argument of \date can‘t contain paragraphs (i.e. blank lines or \par) so we must use \\[<dim>] to get a new line an insert some space.

[Tex/LaTex] Abstract and titlepage

The following code seems to work well. \begin{document} should be before the title.

\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{report}

\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\geometry{letterpaper}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\begin{document}

\title{Thesis}
\author{by Me}
\date{April 15th, 2013} 


\maketitle

\begin{abstract}

stuff and nonsense

\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents    

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to include abstract into titlepage

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[Tex/LaTex] Abstract and titlepage

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