General ⇒ Excluding part titlepages from page numbering

[Ruhen]

Hey all

I'm new to this forum and writing my thesis in latex atm. Still kinda new to latex too.

I got my document divided in parts, and each of those parts has a nice titlepage in de final document (I guess thats normal). But I would like to exclude those titlepages from the (global) page numbering, so that there is no pagenumber on the titlepages and the counter just skips these pages.

Any idea if this is possible and how it can be done? I tried using "\thispagestyle{empty}" but that doesnt seem to work, maybe I'm putting it in a wrong place orso? Any help would be really appreciated

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ruhen,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
In general you should tell us more details, for instance the document class used by you. Sometime its even recommended to give a minimal working example to the board, then we could find a problem easier and could be able to provide specific help.

For the moment I take it that you are using the report class. Its \part command sets the pagestyle to plain and breaks the page after it. So let's try to hack into it ... I redefine the internal macro \@endpart. Additionally I create a counter to backup the page counter for being able to reset it. My relevant code for the preamble would be:

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\newcounter{pagebackup}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\std@endpart{}
\let\std@endpart\@endpart
\renewcommand*\@endpart{%
\setcounter{pagebackup}{\value{page}}%
\thispagestyle{empty}\std@endpart%
\setcounter{page}{\value{pagebackup}}}
\makeatother

I just followed my first idea, there may be different ways. If you have questions, just ask.

Stefan