Re: LaTeX problem

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Glen Snyder wrote:
| I'm using LaTeX from the Woody distro....there seems to be a bug (or I 
| am doing something wrong). If I use \documentclass{article} and then use 
| \pagestyle{empty} , it still insists on putting a page number on the 
| bottom of the first page (although numbers are not on subsequent pages) 
| when I generate a dvi.

I don't understand why this is, but I have recently found that if you
put

\thispagestyle{empty}

in the first page it won't have a page number.  Depending on the
contents of the page, it seems that it needs to appear shortly before
the end of it (ie a \clearpage command).

-D

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