Re: \thispagestyle{empty} not working for me

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Helge Hafting wrote:

> \thispagestyle sets the style for this page only, it might not do anything
> for the next page. Its intended use is when you occationally need a
> single page with a different style.

Helge,

  While I understood this I didn't know what to use for multiple pages.
Forcing \pagestyle{empty} does the trick.

> \pagestyle sets the style to be used for pages from now on and until
> the next style command.

  Got it, thank you.

> Note that several other commands affect the pagestyle.  For any book-like
> document, expect any chapter start (including special chapters
> like preface and TOC) to use some special "first page of chapter" style
> on the first page, and then reset the pagestyle to "normal" after the
> initial page.  This is why preface and TOC brought the numbering back.

  The ToC pagination was fine; it was the Preface that caused problems.

> You can deal with this in several ways:
> * redefine the normal pagestyle to something not include numbers
> * repeat styling commands after each "chapter" start.
> * \thispagestyle on _every_ page

  Or, in my case, use the empty page style between the title and ToC and
headings the page style for the rest of the book.

Many thanks,

Rich

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