\newpage (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 10.2 `\newpage`

Synopsis:

    \newpage

End the current page. This command is robust (see \protect).

LaTeX’s page breaks are optimized so ordinarily you only use this command in a document body to polish the final version, or inside commands.

While the commands `\clearpage` and `\cleardoublepage` also end the current page, in addition they clear pending floats (see \clearpage & \cleardoublepage). And, if LaTeX is in two-column mode then `\clearpage` and `\cleardoublepage` end the current page, possibly leaving an empty column, while `\newpage` only ends the current column.

In contrast with `\pagebreak` (see \pagebreak & \nopagebreak), the `\newpage` command will cause the new page to start right where requested. This

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
    continent,
    \newpage
    \noindent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
    proposition that all men are created equal.

makes a new page start after ‘`continent,`’ and the cut-off line is not right justified. In addition, `\newpage` does not vertically stretch out the page, as `\pagebreak` does.

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