latex generating extra page of output

[rajan]

Hi, I'm making an equation sheet and I am having some minor problems with it. For some reason I am getting an extra page of output before the actual equation sheet. I don't know what is causing the problem, but I have never used the minipage environment before so it may be my inexperience with that. I am attaching the .tex file (named .txt because I cannot upload .tex files to this server) and the .pdf.

I really would appreciate someone taking a look at this and letting me know what simple mistake I'm making.

TIA.

[FreeTheBee]

Putting the minipage in a figure environment gets rid of the blank page, but it screws up the layout a bit. There must be a better fix around, but maybe this helps anyway.

[rajan]

thanks for the reply, i don't really know what i can do about this problem, but that figure environment idea may be the best option. or i could just not print the first page, but that seems like a hack-job to me.

[xadder]

Very odd. I couldn't get rid of that first page either. Maybe you should try one of the latex forums, where there are more latex-experts around.

[rajan]

please note the parallel thread running at latex-community.org ... i didn't want to spam the TUG email list and this seemed to be the most popular alternative.

http://www.latex-community.org/forum...p?f=46&t=10222

it's not "solved" but there's a reasonable solution. i just wish i could figure out why that minipage is being strange. thanks for all the replies.

[Lateralis]

If you want a two column document then you can use

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

You can have whatever options in [] that you like. We have to do this when writing papers. The minipage environment can be a little strange but the above is well established and used.