Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Davis
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014, at 10:46 PM, John Hendy wrote: [snip] > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Peter Davis wrote: > From my fiddling: > - As-is produces 4 pages, blank 3rd > - Commenting out the hyperref package does *not* produce a blank 3rd page > - Using \section* does *not* product a blank 3rd

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-03 Thread John Hendy
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Peter Davis wrote: [snip] >> > > Regarding a bug report, if that's what this is, I just googled "latex >> > > bugs" and got this page as the first hit: >> > > - http://latex-project.org/bugs.html >> > > >> > >> > >> > Unfortunately, that site says they can't accep

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Davis
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:08:35PM -0600, John Hendy wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2014 6:51 PM, "Peter Davis" wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014, at 02:19 PM, John Hendy wrote: > > > I can confirm Peter's results, ... > > > > Thanks, John. > > > > > > > > I searched things like "latex page break 'sec

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-03 Thread John Hendy
On Mar 3, 2014 6:51 PM, "Peter Davis" wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014, at 02:19 PM, John Hendy wrote: > > I can confirm Peter's results, ... > > Thanks, John. > > > > > I searched things like "latex page break 'section*' vs section" with > > no obvious lead on why the two section styles would be

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Davis
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014, at 02:19 PM, John Hendy wrote: > I can confirm Peter's results, ... Thanks, John. > > I searched things like "latex page break 'section*' vs section" with > no obvious lead on why the two section styles would be different. > Regarding a bug report, if that's what this is, I

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-01 Thread Peter Davis
Here are the two LaTeX files. The only differences, apart from creation time, are the the use of \section* instead of \section, so perhaps this is a LaTeX bug. Anyone know how to report that? -pd -- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com no-blank-page-bug.tex Descrip

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-01 Thread Nick Dokos
Peter Davis writes: > On 2/28/14, 7:38 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: >> John is correct, I think, although latex's behavior in leaving an empty >> page does not make much sense to me. Nevertheless, when I reduce >> the height of the last image to less than about 7.85 inches, the empty >> page goes away.

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-01 Thread Nick Dokos
John Hendy writes: > If you could include a minimal Emacs config as well, that would help > others reproduce easier to help figure out what's going on. > One more thing (for Peter): if you could produce the tex file and pdflatex it by hand, can you also post the log file it produces somewhere? I

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-03-01 Thread Nick Dokos
John Hendy writes: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Peter Davis wrote: >> >> On 2/28/14, 10:32 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: >>> >>> You need *some* images in order to compile it. I just replaced all >>> the image links with >>> >>> [[./foo.png]] >> >> >> I did not need any images. In fact, the versio

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Peter Davis wrote: > > On 2/28/14, 10:32 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: >> >> Peter Davis writes: >> >>> Attached is a simple file that demonstrates this. As is, it does not >>> leave a blank page. But if you remove the num:nil option from the >>> second line of this file,

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 10:32 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: Peter Davis writes: Attached is a simple file that demonstrates this. As is, it does not leave a blank page. But if you remove the num:nil option from the second line of this file, you do get a blank page. Not for me: in both cases, I get a blank page

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Dokos
Peter Davis writes: > Attached is a simple file that demonstrates this. As is, it does not > leave a blank page. But if you remove the num:nil option from the > second line of this file, you do get a blank page. > Not for me: in both cases, I get a blank page 3. > You (probably) need koma-artic

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
Attached is a simple file that demonstrates this. As is, it does not leave a blank page. But if you remove the num:nil option from the second line of this file, you do get a blank page. You (probably) need koma-article class for this. (I didn't install anything. It just worked for me.) You don

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread John Hendy
On Feb 28, 2014 7:21 PM, "Peter Davis" wrote: > > > On 2/28/14, 7:38 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: >> >> John is correct, I think, although latex's behavior in leaving an empty >> page does not make much sense to me. Nevertheless, when I reduce >> the height of the last image to less than about 7.85 inche

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 7:38 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: John is correct, I think, although latex's behavior in leaving an empty page does not make much sense to me. Nevertheless, when I reduce the height of the last image to less than about 7.85 inches, the empty page goes away. AFAICT, num: and toc: settings do

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Dokos
Peter Davis writes: > On 2/28/14, 12:03 PM, John Hendy wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Peter Davis wrote: >>> I'm writing a short paper containing tables, images, etc., but I'm getting a >>> blank page in the PDF output. That is, it's completely blank *except* for >>> the page number

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 1:19 PM, Peter Davis wrote: On 2/28/14, 12:37 PM, John Hendy wrote: You can also try: #+latex: \scriptsize % or \small, \footnotesize, or \tiny before your table to make it smaller as well if you think that's contributing. These seem like things to try after the content is com

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 12:37 PM, John Hendy wrote: I was going to try and get back to you quickly, but I don't have koma-article defined and don't have the images you're using, so I won't be much help to you. Intuitively, I'd suggest you try playing with the image sizes to see if you can shrink them and ma

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Peter Davis wrote: > > On 2/28/14, 12:03 PM, John Hendy wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Peter Davis wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a short paper containing tables, images, etc., but I'm >>> getting a >>> blank page in the PDF output. That is, it's comp

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 12:26 PM, Peter Davis wrote: Thanks, John. I figured it has something to do with LaTeX float behavior, but I'm trying to understand how to control it through org-mode. I'm attaching a small sample that reproduces the problem. I'd also like to get rid of that stupid empty table

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
On 2/28/14, 12:03 PM, John Hendy wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Peter Davis wrote: I'm writing a short paper containing tables, images, etc., but I'm getting a blank page in the PDF output. That is, it's completely blank *except* for the page number. Any suggestions on how to troubl

Re: [O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Peter Davis wrote: > > I'm writing a short paper containing tables, images, etc., but I'm getting a > blank page in the PDF output. That is, it's completely blank *except* for > the page number. > > Any suggestions on how to trouble-shoot or fix this? Probably re

[O] Blank page in LaTeX/PDF output

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Davis
I'm writing a short paper containing tables, images, etc., but I'm getting a blank page in the PDF output. That is, it's completely blank *except* for the page number. Any suggestions on how to trouble-shoot or fix this? If I could get rid of the page number on the blank page, I would just