Page break

A page break ends the page: what follows it starts at the top of a new one.

Adding one

• Click Page break in the left column: it is inserted after the block you were in.
• Or type / on an empty line and choose Page break.

The block is a dashed line with its name. It holds nothing — no text, no option.

• With the break selected, press Enter to start a paragraph after it: the first line of the new page.
• Press Backspace or Delete to remove it, or use the bin that appears when you hover it.
• Drag it by its handle to move it, like any block.

What you see, and what you get

The editor does not show pages, so the break does not move anything on screen: it marks the place. Open the PDF Preview tab to see where the page turns.

What it does

• It starts a new page, wherever it is — also right after the title page and the table of contents, where the text would otherwise begin under the contents.
• Figures and tables come first. A figure or a table set to the top or the bottom of a page, and still waiting for its place, is printed before the break rather than after it.
• The paragraph after a break is indented like any other, also when the break follows a heading.

What it does not do

• It does not make a blank page. Two page breaks in a row give one new page. There is no way to leave an empty page yet.
• It adds nothing before a chapter, which already starts on a new page — nor at the very end of the document.
• It cannot go inside a column or a statement. A column is a box, and a page cannot end inside one. Inserted from there, the break is placed after the row of columns, or after the theorem.
• It does not keep things together. A break placed right after a heading leaves the heading alone at the bottom of its page: put the break before the heading instead.

What it prints

One LaTeX command, \clearpage.