[comp.text] Page number on page 1

dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) (07/15/88)

I am using the article document style of LATEX.

I do not want the page number '1' printed at the bottom of the first
page, which has a \maketitle and an abstract environment on it. (Why?
because the next page is a table of contents, with pages numbered i,
ii, ... and it looks silly). No matter what I do, LaTeX insists on
putting in that page number. I have tried \pagestyle{empty} at
multiple places throughout the first page and before the
\begin{document}, I have tried \pagestyle{headings} and
\pagestyle{myheadings}. None of these change the way LaTeX does the
first page. 

Any simple answers?

David Kotz
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cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (07/15/88)

In article <12027@duke.cs.duke.edu> dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) writes:
}I am using the article document style of LATEX.
}
}I do not want the page number '1' printed at the bottom of the first
}page, which has a \maketitle and an abstract environment on it. (Why?
}because the next page is a table of contents, with pages numbered i,
}ii, ... and it looks silly). ....
}
}Any simple answers?

  No simple answers, but a smallish comment: if you're going to use
  roman-numeral-numbered frontmatter, I believe that the numbering properly
  includes *all* of the pages of the frontmatter.  And so if you have a title
  page, the ToC will be (ii) or (iii) depending on whether you're doing one- or
  two-sided.

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dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) (07/16/88)

In article <12027@duke.cs.duke.edu>, dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) writes:
> I am using the article document style of LATEX.
> 
> I do not want the page number '1' printed at the bottom of the first
> page, which has a \maketitle and an abstract environment on it. 

The solution is to issue a \thispagestyle{empty} AFTER the \maketitle
command, resetting the \thispagestyle{plain} always executed by
\maketitle.  Must not have been one of the permutations I tried
before. 

Thanks for all who helped,
Dave
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
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