[Tex/LaTex] \pagestyle{empty} doesn’t work on first page of new chapter

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I have a problem with page numbering in LaTeX. I don't want any page number in my document so I used \pagestyle{empty} but every time when I start a new chapter I get a page number on the bottom center of the page with the chapter's title. What should I do to remove those page numbers?

My document class looks like this:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}

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\documentclass{book}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\begin{document}
\chapter{abc}
blub
\newpage
blub
\end{document}

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If you are using Koma-Script, you can use the scrpage2 package, and then define your own styles scrheadings and scrplain (see the Koma-Script manual). You can then assign them to all pages but the chapter pages, or to the chapter pages specifically:

\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{scrplain}

[Tex/LaTex] Suppressing page numbering in the first page of chapter in mainmatter but not in frontmatter

memoir provides the condition \if@mainmatter which you can use to condition on whether or not you're in the \mainmatter section of your document:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage,oneside,openany]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
% empty style for the first page of every chapter, except in \frontmatter
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\chapter{\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi
                \if@mainmatter
                  \thispagestyle{empty}% plain page style in mainmatter
                \else
                  \thispagestyle{plain}% empty page style outside of mainmatter
                \fi%
                \global\@topnum\z@
                \@afterindentfalse
                \secdef\@chapter\@schapter}
\makeatother

\usepackage{makeidx}

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhead{} % clear default layout
\fancyfoot{} % clear default layout
\fancypagestyle{mainmatter}{%
\fancyhead[L]{\sffamily \small \color{darkgray}\MakeUppercase{\bfseries        \leftmark}}  
\fancyhead[R]{\nouppercase \scshape \small \thepage}
}

\fancypagestyle{frontmatter}{%
\fancyhead[L]{}
\fancyhead[R]{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagestyle{frontmatter}% frontmatter page style
\clearpage
\tableofcontents
\clearpage % with tocloft we need this
\listoffigures
\clearpage % with tocloft we need this
\listoftables
\clearpage

\mainmatter
\pagestyle{mainmatter}

\chapter{A}
\kant
\chapter{B}
\kant
\chapter{C}
\kant
\end{document}

While I've used empty and plain as the chapter page styles in the mainmatter and frontmatter respectively, you can update this to whatever you want, or even create your own new ones.

Also note that memoir provides functionality for creating headers/footers, so you don't need fancyhdr for this.

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