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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-wdidt.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-wdidt.tex index c0c0d0a450f..ddcbfa84c1c 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-wdidt.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-wdidt.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $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?} |