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In article <1194@ruuinf.UUCP> piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

>It is worse: Latex does a \thispagestyle{plain} in several places:
>1. At the beginning of most document styles.
>2. At the beginning of echa chapter, part, Index, etc.
>3. At the titlepage.
>   and maybe more.
>If you have a report or article style, no matter where you put the
>\pagestyle, the first page does have the \thispagestyle set, and the only
>way to get rid of it is to do another \thispagestyle{empty}.

>I consider this a bug in Latex. I think Latex should cancel a pending
>\thispagestyle whenever a \pagestyle is given. This does, however, not

>Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht

I would like to suggest a better fix.  It seems to me that the reason
these \thispagestyle commands are there in the first place is to give a
page with no headings if you are on a title page.  The only case where
you get an undesirable result, then, is when you want no page numbers at
all (\pagestyle{empty}).  My suggestion:  in each of the cases mentioned
above, have LaTeX check whether the pagestyle is set to empty, and if it
isn't, execute \thispagestyle{plain}.

By the way, I would still like to know how to move the title closer to
the top of the page on the first page of a document of the form
\documentstyle[12pt,twocolumn]{article}.
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-B. A. Lotto  (ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu)
Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University/East Lansing, MI  48824