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From: dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Page number on page 1
Summary: the solution
Keywords: getting rid of it, LATEX
Message-ID: <12033@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 88 19:04:34 GMT
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In article <12027@duke.cs.duke.edu>, dfk@grad2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) writes:
> I am using the article document style of LATEX.
> 
> I do not want the page number '1' printed at the bottom of the first
> page, which has a \maketitle and an abstract environment on it. 

The solution is to issue a \thispagestyle{empty} AFTER the \maketitle
command, resetting the \thispagestyle{plain} always executed by
\maketitle.  Must not have been one of the permutations I tried
before. 

Thanks for all who helped,
Dave
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
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