Bug#277327: marked as forwarded (tetex-bin: In latex, \maketitle causes page number to be inserted even in empty pagestyle)
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regarding tetex-bin: In latex, \maketitle causes page number to be inserted even in empty pagestyle
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author(s) Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>.
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To: Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#277327: tetex-bin: In latex, \maketitle causes page number
to be inserted even in empty pagestyle
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:19:16 +0200
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tags 277327 patch
thanks
Hallo Thomas,
we have here a report about some missing documentation.
"George B." <i93.borg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:36:35 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda
> <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what means you used but at least Lamport's
>> book on LaTeX describes; some commands change the style
>> of the current page so one need a subsequent \thispagestyle
>> to override the changes (cf. p.89-90).
[...]
>> So \thispagestyle{empty} after \maketitle would do
>> what you want.
>>
>> Is this not sufficient documentation?
>
> I've never heard of this book, so no, it is not sufficient (sorry.)
> The only decumentation I've read is the "lshort" book and the
> tetex-doc reference.
[...]
> Again, this does not satisfy me, because I had to submit this bug
> report to find out. The fact that a book on LaTeX explains this does
> not help me, because I don't use it enough to justify reading a whole
> book on this (a law student has lots of other reading to do).
>
> What I would like to see is a note in the tetex-doc reference,
> probably at the bottom of the \maketitle section (ltx-263.html),
> pointing out this 'feature'.
There might be a (practical) problem with changing this
documentation. The note at the bottom of index.html says:
,----
| These pages were originally created by Sheldon Green, who passed away
| in December 1995. Updates subsequent to Dr. Green's death have been
| made only for purposes of page formatting and link
| verification. Please contact webmaster@giss.nasa.gov if you are
| interested in assisting with maintenance and updates to these pages.
`----
I couldn't find the license of this documentation, but at least it seems
as if the current authors are not willing to do changes to the content.
Attached is a patch to latex2e.texi, from which the info documentation
in teTeX is generated. Why not also generate a html version of this
text?
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Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=latex2e.texi.diff
--- tetex-bin-2.96.7.20040721-CVS/texk/tetex/latex2e.texi.orig Thu Oct 21 12:08:17 2004
+++ tetex-bin-2.96.7.20040721-CVS/texk/tetex/latex2e.texi Thu Oct 21 12:09:26 2004
@@ -3822,10 +3822,13 @@
The @code{\maketitle} command generates a title on a separate title page
- except in the @code{article} class, where the title normally goes at
-the top of the first page. Information used to produce the title is
-obtained from the following declarations:
+the top of the first page. In the @code{article} class,
+@code{\maketitle} will also switch to pagestyle @code{plain}. @xref{Page
+Styles} for commands to change page numbering.
+
+Information used to produce the title is obtained from the following
+declarations:
-@xref{Page Styles}, for the commands to give the information.
@menu
* \author:: Who wrote this stuff?
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Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster
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