Add blank page after certain page in pdf Quarto

Question

I would like to add a blank page after certain page in pdf Quarto. I tried using \newpage like described here with this reproducible example:

---
title: "Add blank page after certain page"
format: pdf
---

# Chapter 1

Here some random text

\newpage

\newpage

# Chapter 2

Again random rext after white page

Output:

As you can see in the output, there is no blank page after the first page. I also tried \pagebreak like here, but that also doesn't work. So I was wondering if anyone knows how to add a blank page between two chapters in pdf Quarto?

Answer 1

To add blank pages between chapters accounting for page numbers, we can follow this answer,

---
title: "Add blank page after certain page"
format:
  pdf:
    include-in-header:
      - text: |
          \usepackage{afterpage}
          \def\blankpage{%
          \clearpage%
          \thispagestyle{empty}%
          \addtocounter{page}{-1}%
          \null%
          \clearpage}
---

# Chapter 1

Here some random text

\blankpage

# Chapter 2

Again random rext after white page

---

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