General ⇒ no page number in table of contents

[beyma]

Hi all,

I'm desperate with this issue... My document follows the hepthesis class.
I would like to eliminate the bottom page numbering in the first page of toc, lof and lot.
I've tried \thispagestyle{empty} without success !!

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\documentclass[bind,twoside,ams,booktabs,a4paper]{hepthesis}
\begin{document}

\begin{abstract}
\thispagestyle{empty}
This is the abstract.
\end{abstract}
\cleardoublepage

% first page of contents always has page number on bottom
\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage

\begin{mainmatter}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\input{chap1}
\input{chap2}
\end{mainmatter}

\listoffigures
\listoftables

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

Any ideas will be highly appreciated !!

Cheers,
Sergio

[localghost]

Refer to the documentation of the fancyhdr package and search for the redefinition oft the plain style (Section 7 - Redefining plain style, p. 7f).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[beyma]

Dear Thorsten,

many thanks for the precise hint ! It worked wonderfully.

Regards,
Sergio

[stinkinrich88]

great, could you let us know how you did it?

[localghost]

great, could you let us know how you did it?

That is described in detail in the section of the documentation I mentioned above.


Best regards
Thorsten

[stinkinrich88]

I meant it would've been really great if beyma had posted his / her solution to help other people and save people's time. Anyway, that document wasn't very specific about the problem---more of a general guide---so here's what I came up with:

\pagestyle{empty} %get rid of header/footer for toc page
\tableofcontents %put toc in
\cleardoublepage %start new page
\pagestyle{plain} % put headers/footers back on
\setcounter{page}{1} %reset the page counter

[localghost]

[...] Anyway, that document wasn't very specific about the problem---more of a general guide---so here's what I came up with: [...]

The documentation is very specific about that. Right in the section I mentioned. And the more convenient way would be to follow the suggestions of the fancyhdr documentation.

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}                          % clear all header and footer fields
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

In principal this is some kind of empty page style.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

just some explanation about the behaviour of the code in the first posting: if the toc has more than one page, a following \thispagestyle cannot affect its first page, only the last. However \thispagestyle can be used in the toc like this:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}

This way you could do other things too, for example place a pagebreak in the toc, enlarge a toc page or even embed \addcontentsline with \addtocontents inside a list of tables and so on.

Further, if I don't want to use the plain pagestyle but empty instead, I just write

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\let\ps@plain\ps@empty

If you want to use that, don't forget \makeatletter ... \makeatother around the line.

Stefan

[Dott_JJ]

Hi everybody,

what about deleting ALL the page numbers in TOC? I tried all of your suggestions but they are only useful for the first page. My TOC is at the moment 4 pages long...

Thank you guys

Giacomo

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Giacomo!

\contentsline produces the page numbers for the table of contents entries, it calles further macros \l@chapter, \l@section etc. It is called like this, in the .toc file:

\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}section title}{page number}

So you could redefine it, doing nothing with that third argument. Just add to your preamble:

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\renewcommand*{\contentsline}[3]{\csname l@#1\endcsname{#2}{}}

Stefan