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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the page number
Keywords: Page number,article style
Message-ID: <3787@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:06:11 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.152344.2817@csc.anu.oz.au>
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In-reply-to: cmj851@csc.anu.oz.au (Richard Walker)

In article <1990Sep13.152344.2817@csc.anu.oz.au>, cmj851@csc (Richard Walker) writes:
 |I would like *not* to have the page number on the first page
 |of some of my documents using the `article' style, because they
 |are just one page.  I tried to do this using \pagestyle{empty}, but
 |LaTeX insists on putting the page number in (at the bottom of the
 |page), nonetheless.

You have to use the command \thispagestyle{empty}. Beware, if you use the
\maketitle command, you must put \thispagestyle after \maketitle.
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