[Tex/LaTex] Putting table of contents in a page without other elements

page-breakingtable of contents

I want to put the table of contents in a separate blank page where it will be alone without any other element. How can I achieve this?

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Using \clearpage is the mechanism in LaTeX to force content to be sent to the next page. In this case since you want to have the table of content on its own page, you need to call \clearpage before and after invoking \tableofcontents

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[Tex/LaTex] Title page plus table of contents

there are several possible solutions:

Use a different class. article or scrartcl would be good place to start. Can not remember if a report class would do what you want.
Redefine \maketitle
```
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{%
  \begin{center}
    \vspace{2em}
    \sffamily\LARGE \@author \\
      \vspace{1em}
    \Huge \@title \\
      \vspace{1em}
    \normalfont \@date \\
      \vspace{2em}
    %include any more variables, which are needed for a title page.
  \end{center}
}
\makeatother
```
This should redefine \maketitle, so that it would be possible to put \tableofcontents on the same page. You should play a bit more to get the spacings right. On how to create custom title pages you should read the LaTeX Wikibook

EDIT: I edited it to fix some silly typos, but It did not achieve what was wanted. the command Table of Contents is clearing a double page, which is making everything worse.

Take a glimpse to the KOMA Script document classes, the scrbook class is much more flexible and it might be possible to customize it to fit your requirements without implementing any ugly hacks.

[Tex/LaTex] Remove page numbers from footer for multi-page Table of Contents

As you stated, the \thispagestyle{...} command only affects the current page, so it will not help for a multi-page table of contents, except, as you do in your solution, if you ensure that it's called at least once on each page.

To momentarily change the page footer over several pages, you can use \pagestyle{...}. So the first naive thing to try is:

\pagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\pagestyle{plain}

note the \clearpage command, so that the following \pagestyle command only takes effect on the following page and not on the last page of the table of contents.

However, there is a catch: \tableofcontents internally calls \chapter*{...}, which itself calls \thispagestyle{plain} (see book.cls source). So the first page will still have the "plain" footer style. To hack around that, I don't have a more elegant solution than to momentarily disable the \thispagestyle command itself; the total code block is then:

\pagestyle{empty}
{
  \renewcommand{\thispagestyle}[1]{}
  \tableofcontents
}
\clearpage
\pagestyle{plain}

Note the pair of braces, meant to restore the macro \thispagestyle to its original meaning after the block.

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