[Tex/LaTex] removing page number for title page

page-numberingtitles

I'm using titlepage to create a title/abstract page for a paper, and I don't want a page number to appear, so I use the following fragment:

\begin{titlepage}
\clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}
  \maketitle

\begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}

\end{titlepage}

inside a default article class. While the page number resets correctly (so the second page is labelled '1'), the page number '1' still appears on the first page. I'm sure there's some obvious mistake I'm making here, and would be grateful for some help.

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\maketitle sets the page style to plain, so you need to move \thispagestyle{empty} to after \maketitle:

\clearpage\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}

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Add \thispagestyle{plain} immediately after starting your abstract environment. (In the report class, at the begin of the abstract environment, \titlepage is called internally by default, which sets \thispagestyle{empty}.)

EDIT: If you want to switch to arabic page numbering for the rest of your paper, consider to use the book class instead of report and to use its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands. You may emulate the behaviour of report with \documentclass[oneside]{book}. (Note that the book class doesn't provide an abstract environment; however, an unnumbered frontmatter chapter is quite suited for an abstract of a longer work.)

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You get three times a page 1 in the front matter: in the report class the titlepage environment which is used also by abstract resets the page number to 1.

I suggest you to use the book class with its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, with \chapter{\abstractname} for the abstract in the front matter.

However also the report class can be used, after patching the relevant commands; I show only the important parts, add the rest to suit. It's probably better to \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} for setting the page parameters and \usepackage{setspace} for the interline spacing.

Remember the \clearpage command before \pagenumbering{arabic}.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

%%% PATCHES %%%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch `titlepage` not to reset the page number
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\endtitlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}

% Patch `abstract` so that it shows the page number
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\titlepage}{\titlepage\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
%%% END PATCHES %%%

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{titlepage}
abc
\end{titlepage}
\begin{abstract}
dddd
\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents

\clearpage %%%%% <---- IMPORTANT
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{}
\chapter{A}

\end{document}

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