General ⇒ Can't suppress page number on certain page

[Winter Light]

I'm a LaTeX newbie, so please be gentle.

I recently made some changes to my title page and can't seem to suppress the page number.

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\pagesyle{empty}

works fine but affects the rest of the document.

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\thispagestyle{empty}

doesn't do a thing, despite working every other time I've needed it.

What am I missing?

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks.

title-page.tex

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Winter Light,

welcome to the board!
The title page could be too high, depending on your other settings. Check if you get a warning Overfull \vbox. With the default settings of the report class for example it would be sufficient to remove the line 8:

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%\vspace*{\baselineskip}

After the height is corrected \thispagestyle{empty} should work like desired.

Stefan

[Winter Light]

Hi Winter Light,

welcome to the board!
The title page could be too high, depending on your other settings. Check if you get a warning Overfull \vbox. With the default settings of the report class for example it would be sufficient to remove the line 8:

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%\vspace*{\baselineskip}

After the height is corrected \thispagestyle{empty} should work like desired.

Stefan

Thanks for the welcome and the tip! That solved my problem exactly.

[T3.]

I was just going to suggest the same as Stefan. Let me just add that in the future you should provide a complete minimal example (with all the necessary packages in the preamble and so on) and not just a fragment of your document, because the problem might be actually in some other part of your document (like misconfigured package). It's also less tedious to compile your example if it doesn't require to write some boiler-plate code.

Cheers,

Tomek

[gmedina]

As a supplement to Tomek's suggestion, here you can find information about building a minimal working example.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I agree with Tomek, I just want to give you a link to a website that explains some reasons and provides helpful information about how to create a minimal working example: What are these minimal working examples. It may help if you should encounter new problems, with an MWE we could provide advice more efficiently.
edit: gmedina wrote faster, but I think I'll keep my posting this time.

Stefan

[Winter Light]

As a supplement to Tomek's suggestion, here you can find information about building a minimal working example.

I see your point and apologize for the error.

I'm a writer learning LaTeX to get a job done, rather than someone who is learning LaTeX because it's their job. I am particularly prone to mistakes at the moment. Sorry.

[T3.]

I see your point and apologize for the error.

There's no need to apologize. Just keep it in mind for the future.

Cheers,

Tomek