\
pagestyle{plain}
have the same effect as
\
pagestyle{empty}
; in simple documents, this will suppress
all page numbering (it will not work, of course, if the document uses
some other pagestyle than plain
).
To suppress page numbers from a sequence of pages, you may use
\
pagestyle{empty}
at the start of the sequence, and restore
the original page style at the end. Unfortunately, you still have to
deal with the page numbers on pages containing a \
maketitle
,
\
part
or \
chapter
command, since the standard classes; deal
with those separately, as described below.
To suppress page numbers on a single page, use
\
thispagestyle{empty}
somewhere within the text of the
page. Note that, in the standard classes, \
maketitle
and
\
chapter
use \
thispagestyle
internally, so your call
must be after those commands.
Unfortunately, \
thispagestyle
doesn’t work for book or
report \
part
commands: they set the page style (as do
\
chapter
commands), but then they advance to the next page so
that you have no opportunity to change the style using
\
thispagestyle
. The present author has proposed solving the
problem with the following “grubby little patch”, on
comp.text.tex:
\makeatletter \let\sv@endpart\@endpart \def\@endpart{\thispagestyle{empty}\sv@endpart} \makeatother
Both the KOMA-script classes and memoir have separate page styles for the styles of various “special” pages, so, in a KOMA class document one might say:
\renewcommand*{\titlepagestyle}{empty}
while memoir will do the job with
\
aliaspagestyle{title}{empty}
An alternative (in all classes) is to use the rather delightful
\
pagenumbering{gobble}
; this has the simple effect that any
attempt to print a page number produces nothing, so there’s no issue
about preventing any part of LaTeX from printing the number.
However, the \
pagenumbering
command does have the side effect that
it resets the page number (to 1), so it is unlikely to be helpful
other than at the beginning of a document.
The scrpage2 package separates out the representation of the
page number (it typesets the number using the \
pagemark
command) from
the construction of the page header and footer; so one can say
\renewcommand*{\pagemark}{}
which will also suppress the printing of the page number.
Neither of these “suppress the page number” techniques touches the page style in use; in practice this means they don’t make sense unless you are using\
pagestyle{plain}
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