Re: LaTeX problem

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:44:47PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
| on Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:21:05AM -0500, dman insinuated:
| > 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).
| 
| not in my experience -- i begin almost every .tex file i write with
[...]

I said "depending on the contents of a page".  With the title page, it
works at the beginning.  If you put a large graphic on the page the
\thispagestyle doesn't get rid of the page number.  Tabular
environments play tricks with this too.  Try it :-).

-D

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