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-% $Id: faq-wdidt.tex,v 1.2 2009/09/01 06:53:22 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-wdidt.tex,v 1.2 2009/10/09 18:20:46 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Why does it \emph{do} that?}
@@ -696,6 +696,37 @@ either case, this would require that you reconfigure some program's
(\TeX{}'s or your drawing package's) font tables~--- inevitably a
tiresome job.
+\Question[Q-emptynum]{I asked for ``empty'', but the page is numbered}
+
+If you use \cmdinvoke{pagestyle}{empty} and you find some pages are
+numbered anyway, you are probably encountering one of the style
+decisions built into the standard \LaTeX{} classes: that certain
+special pages should always appear with \cmdinvoke{pagestyle}{plain},
+with a page number at the centre of the page foot. The special pages
+in question are those (in \Class{article} class) containing a
+\csx{maketitle}, or (in \Class{book} and \Class{report} classes)
+\csx{chapter} or \csx{part} commands.
+
+The simple solution is to reissue the page style \emph{after} the
+command, with effect for a single page, as, for example (in
+\Class{article}):
+\begin{quote}
+\begin{verbatim}
+\maketitle
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{quote}
+or (in \Class{book} or \Class{report})
+\begin{quote}
+\begin{verbatim}
+\chapter{foo bar}
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{quote}
+A similar technique doesn't work for a \Class{book} or \Class{report}
+\csx{part} command pages. For that, and for other detail, take look
+at ``\Qref*{getting rid of page numbers}{Q-nopageno}''.
+
\subsection{Common misunderstandings}
\Question[Q-include]{What's going on in my \csx{include} commands?}