LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – inserting page breaks

We will go back to the first version of our example and we shall manually insert a page break right before the subsection 1.2.1.

1. Insert the highlighted line into our example:

   \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \begin{document}
   \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
   In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
   \section{Some filler text}
   \blindtext
   \section{A lot more filler text}
   More dummy text will follow.
   \pagebreak
   \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
   \blindtext[10]
   \end{document}

2. Typeset and have a look:
   
3. Replace \pagebreak by \newpage.
4. Typeset and compare: ...