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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ps@empty</title>
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<h3><code>\pagestyle{empty}</code> on first page in LaTeX</h3>
<p/>If you use <code>\</code><code>pagestyle{empty}</code>, but the first page is numbered
anyway, you are probably using the <code>\</code><code>maketitle</code> command too. The
behaviour is not a bug but a feature.  The standard LaTeX classes are
written so that initial pages (pages containing a <code>\</code><code>maketitle</code>,
<code>\</code><code>part</code>, or <code>\</code><code>chapter</code>) have a different page style from the rest
of the document; to achieve this, the commands internally issue
<code>\</code><code>thispagestyle{plain}</code>. This is usually not acceptable
behaviour if the surrounding page style is &lsquo;empty&rsquo;.
<p/>Possible workarounds include:
<ul>
<li> Put <code>\</code><code>thispagestyle{empty</code>} immediately after the
  <code>\</code><code>maketitle</code> command, with no blank line between them.
<li> Use the <i>fancyhdr</i> or <i>scrpage2</i> packages, which
  allow you to customise the style for initial pages independently of
  that for body pages.
<p/>  For example, use <i>fancyhdr</i> commands:
<pre>
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}%
}
</pre>
  and the &ldquo;<code>empty</code>&rdquo; page style (invoked by <code>\</code><code>chapter</code>
  commands and title pages) will have no header or footer.
<li> If you are using either the <i>memoir</i> class or a
  <i>KOMA-script</i> class, use the techniques outlined for them in
  &ldquo;<a href="FAQ-nopageno.html">no page numbers</a>&rdquo;.
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<dt><tt><i>fancyhdr.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr.zip">macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>KOMA script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>nopageno.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivemacros/latex/contrib/carlisle/nopageno.sty">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/nopageno.sty</a>
<dt><tt><i>scrpage2.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ps@empty">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ps@empty</a>
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