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dsimon@atlas.nafb.trw.com writes:

>A couple of weeks ago someone was asking about how to prevent a page number
>from appearing at the bottom of the first page of an article.  Does anyone
>have the answer?  I use \pagestyle{empty} and still get a page number 
>at the bottom of the page with the title.  Even when I insert a garbage
>page as my first page, the page with the title always has a page number!
>------------
>Dan Simon

There is a bug in the article.sty (and probably other .sty as well) coursing
pagenumbers ALWAYS to be printed at page 1.
Problem is that \maketitle and \titlepage executes \thispagestyle{plain}
during processing.

When some one asked this question about a month ago, I made him this
.sty file which fixes the problem.
------------------ nicetitles.sty --------------------------------
\def\theindex{\@restonecoltrue\if@twocolumn\@restonecolfalse\fi
\columnseprule \z@
\columnsep 35pt\twocolumn[\section*{Index}]
 \@mkboth{INDEX}{INDEX}\parindent\z@
 \parskip\z@ plus .3pt\relax\let\item\@idxitem}

\def\maketitle{\par
 \begingroup
 \def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
 \def\@makefnmark{\hbox
 to 0pt{$^{\@thefnmark}$\hss}}
 \if@twocolumn
 \twocolumn[\@maketitle]
 \else \newpage
 \global\@topnum\z@ \@maketitle \fi\@thanks
 \endgroup
 \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 \let\maketitle\relax
 \let\@maketitle\relax
 \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}\let\thanks\relax}
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Just do \documentstyle[...,nicetitles,...]{article}

Kind regards

Erik Plesner (ep@id.dth.dk)
M.Sc., Research Engineer, Technical University of Denmark