Page Layout ⇒ Suppress Page Number on first Page of ToC

[cotanugo]

Hello,

I use book or report document class, and I need no page number on the first page of the ToC, while keep page numbers (or column titles via \pagestyle{myheadings}), on the top of page, in the other pages of Contents.

For instance, if I simply declare global \pagestyle{empty}, I need to remove page number from the bottom of first page of ToC.

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\documentclass{book}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
  The Title \newpage

  \thispagestyle{empty}   \tableofcontents

  \chapter{chapter1}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{chapter2}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{chapter3}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{chapter4}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
  \chapter{This is a chapter}\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{document}

As I understand, \thispagestyle{empty} before \tableofcontents does not affect on it due to \tableofcontents is taken from another file.

Could anybody give an advise?

[localghost]

Seemingly you want to suppress page numbers in general on pages which start a chapter. Hence it is smarter to redefine the plain page style, which is automatically used on those pages. This can be done e.g. by the fancyhdr package as shown below.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
  headheight=15pt
}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}  % customized pages style
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\usepackage{lipsum}  % only for dummy text, not for use in actual document


\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \chapter{Foo}
    \lipsum[1-3]  % only for dummy text, not for use in actual document

  \chapter{Bar}
    \lipsum[4-6]  % only for dummy text, not for use in actual document

  \chapter{Baz}
    \lipsum[7-9]  % only for dummy text, not for use in actual document
\end{document}

Remarks:

• For a freely created title page you may want to take a look at the {titlepage} environment.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[cotanugo]

Thanks. I did not know that \tableofcontains works similar to chapter. Anyway, without fancyhdr package \thispagestyle{clear} works for common chapter head, and does not work for the first page of ToC.

[localghost]

[…] Anyway, without fancyhdr package \thispagestyle{clear} works for common chapter head, and does not work for the first page of ToC.

What is this page style clear and where does it come from? Or do you mean the empty page style? Is this a follow-up question?