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6.4. Book and part headings\newcommand{\partpageend}{%\afterpartskip\ifm@mnopartnewpage% set by \(no)partblankpage\else%default finish off\if@twoside\if@openright% output blank page\null\thispagestyle{afterpart}%\newpage\fi\fi\fi\if@tempswa% true if twocolumn was being used\twocolumn\fi}Here with the default definitions, \afterpartskip ends off the \part page, and thenthe rest of the code in \partpageend takes care of typesetting the blank back side of the\part page (or send us back to twocolumn mode).If on the other hand we actually want to write something below the part title on the\part page, then we need a different route. The ‘air’ above and below the part title is bydefault defined as\newcommand*{\beforepartskip}{\null\vfil}\newcommand*{\afterpartskip}{\vfil\newpage}Thus we need to redefined this such that it does not change the page and such that it adduseful spacing above and below the part titling. Something like this may do the trick\makeatletter\newcommand*{\beforepartskip}{\null\vskip4cm}\newcommand*{\afterpartskip}{\par\vskip1cm%\@afterindentfalse\@afterheading}\makeatother6.4.1 Leadpage\newleadpage[〈page-style〉]{〈cmdname〉}{〈title〉}\newleadpage*[〈page-style〉]{〈cmdname〉}{〈title〉}\renewleadpage[〈page-style〉]{〈cmdname〉}{〈title〉}\renewleadpage*[〈page-style〉]{〈cmdname〉}{〈title〉}\newleadpage and associates are variants of the \newcommand and companions. 2 The\newleadpage command defines a macro \cmdname that when called will typeset anAppendixpage-like page (see §6.2.1) with a title 〈title〉 using the 〈page-style〉 as the pagestylefor the page. The default is the empty pagestyle. The macro \renewleadpage redefinesan existing leadpage command. As an example:\newleadpage{plates}{Picture Gallery}2 The suggestions for these came from Danie Els and Lars Madsen.81