Re: How to make a blank page

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Silvain,

it might help to understand that \pageBreak is not an instruction to insert a 
pageBreak. Think of \noPageBreak: This is a token that prevents a pageBreak to 
happen at the given place. Similarly \pageBreak is a token that enforces a 
pageBreak to happen at the given place (in other words the token must not 
happen within one page).

Now, if you have

[ page1 ]
\pageBreak
[ page2 ]

and [page1] and [page2] are already two different pages the \pageBreak will not 
do anything, as there already is a pageBreak. This is similar to how adding 
\break at a line break will not cause an empty line. I’d suggest you do

\pageBreak
\markup\null
\pageBreak

The first \pageBreak will ensure that a new page is started, the second 
guarantees that the follwing content starts on a new page. All in all this 
will create an empty page, no matter where you insert it. You can even do a 
function for this:

emptyPage =
#(define-scheme-function () ()
   (collect-music-aux add-score #{ \pageBreak #})
   (add-text (markup #:null))
   (collect-music-aux add-score #{ \pageBreak #}))

\emptyPage
\markup "a"
\emptyPage
\markup "b"

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Montag, 12. Juni 2023, 08:28:36 CEST schrieb Silvain Dupertuis:
> I tried this trick, which seems to work :
> 
> \markup " "
> \pageBreak
> 
> produces a blank page
> 
> It seems that there must be something on the page for \pageBreak to produce
> a page.
> 
> Of course, there is also possibilities to add blank pages to a PDF document.
> Le 11.06.23 à 15:41, Paul McKay a écrit :
> > \version "2.24.0"
> > \language "en"
> > myScore = \score { \relative { c'4 d e f g }}
> > \pageBreak
> > \myScore

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