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I'm writing my Bachelor's thesis in English in a Finnish university. Therefore, I have to have two separate abstract pages, one in Finnish and one in English. With only one abstract I had:

\begin{abstract}
Abstract text here
\end{abstract}

and there was no additional blank page after it. To add another abstract, I simply tried:

\begin{abstract}
Abstract text here
\end{abstract}
\begin{abstract}
Abstract text here
\end{abstract}

and a blank page appeared between the abstracts. I'm not sure what information I should give but here's the beginning of the file:

\documentclass[english,oneside,openright,utf]{HYgradu}

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[pdftex]{color, graphicx}
\usepackage[pdftex, plainpages=false, bookmarks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[square]{natbib}
\usepackage[footnotesize,bf]{caption}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{float}


\onehalfspacing

I already tried:

\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage

and

\nopagebreak

and

\usepackage[clearempty]{titlesec}

but they didn't seem to work. I'm not sure if I put them in right places, though. I'm not experienced with LaTeX.

EDIT: I had \clearpage in the custom class HYgradu.cls file at the end of the \renewenvironment{abstract}{}:

...

\clearpage
\pagestyle{empty}
\if@twoside
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage
\fi

\ifdefined@quoting
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagebreak
\hspace{0pt}
\vfill
\noindent @quoting
\vfill
\hspace{0pt}
\pagebreak
\fi

}

I just removed \clearpage and now it seems to work fine: no more blank page between the abstracts. So, my custom class was a bit different after all from the one behind the link in the comment. Thanks for help!

JHK
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. You are using the customized class file HYgradu.cls, – MadyYuvi Sep 01 '23 at 12:11
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    To elaborate, we don't have HYgradu.cls, so we can't compile your example. If I make a simple example with two abstracts, they appear next to each other, so it seems that your class is doing something to insert the blank page. You could probably try changing openright to openany, but that will also change how other chapters are typeset. – Teepeemm Sep 01 '23 at 12:28
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    Is this Hygradu class, which you are using? But in this case, you cannot use \usepackage[titletoc](appendix}, because \appendices would already be defined by the class. And if I try to make a complete example from your code snippets, I get a blank page before the abstracts but not between them. So can you please link the class and also show a minimal working example instead of code snippets only? – cabohah Sep 01 '23 at 12:29
  • Yes, that class behind the link looks the same as mine. Changing openright to openany didn't work. I have to look at the class more carefully. – JHK Sep 01 '23 at 12:53
  • Alternatively you could put both abstracts in one abstract environment (possibly in two columns). – John Kormylo Sep 01 '23 at 20:57
  • Sorry, my custom class was a bit different after all from the one behind the link. I had \clearpage at the end of \renewenvironment{abstract}{}. I just removed that and now it works fine. Thanks for help! – JHK Sep 04 '23 at 10:29

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