\nopagenumbers in LATEX

[Peter A. Bidian]

Hi,

How do I get rid of page numbers in LaTeX. It seems as it doesn't know
the \nopagenumbers from TeX.

Thanks,

Peter

[Peter A. Bidian]

pe...@aem.umn.edu (Peter A. Bidian) writes, well me:

>How do I get rid of page numbers in LaTeX. It seems as it doesn't know
>the \nopagenumbers from TeX.

Thanks to al who answered. Here is the quiz answer for those who asked me
to post it (it's the answer by Phil Hirschborn):

\pagestyle{empty}

If you use \maketitle, you may also need to follow the \maketitle
command with a \thispagestyle{empty} command (yes, that shouldn't be
necessary, but it's a well-known bug).

Peter

[dho...@hmcvax.claremont.edu]

It's not a bug. It's a feature. This said in all seriousness.

\pagestyle and \thispagestyle are commands that really, because
of their design, are not really end-user commands. When I present
these commands in my LaTeX classes, I make this fact clear and
point out that any document structure in a LaTeX document might
change the page style (other examples include \part in
report/book and \chapter as well as \begin{letter} in the letter
style. And this just standard document styles. A custom document
style might conceivably do other things as well).

-dh
Don Hosek
dho...@ymir.claremont.edu
Quixote Digital Typography
909-621-1291

[Fred S. Brundick]

In article <1993May31...@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dho...@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
|>
|> \pagestyle and \thispagestyle are commands that really, because
|> of their design, are not really end-user commands. When I present
|> these commands in my LaTeX classes, I make this fact clear and
|> point out that any document structure in a LaTeX document might
|> change the page style (other examples include \part in
|> report/book and \chapter as well as \begin{letter} in the letter
|> style. And this just standard document styles. A custom document
|> style might conceivably do other things as well).
|>
|> -dh
|> Don Hosek
|> dho...@ymir.claremont.edu
|> Quixote Digital Typography
|> 909-621-1291

When I wrote my in-house style sheet, which includes page headers and
footers, I wrote \nopagenumbers and \usepagenumbers commands to turn page
numbers off and on. If the user hasn't defined special page markings,
\pagestyle{empty} is run, otherwise some internal hand-waving is
employed to suppress the numbers.

How else is the user supposed to do this? Since I have a custom page
style, \pagestyle{empty} trashes the headers and footers as well as
the page number. In other words, I agree with Don.

dsw, fferd
Fred S. Brundick
USARL, APG, MD.
<fs...@arl.army.mil>