I try to begin my document with the book
document class.
It work fine until I use \maketitle
. So, a useless empty page (witch only contain the number “0”) is printed before the title page. But the title page still have the number 0…
This is my MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\date{\today}
\author{Foo}
\title{Bar Zee}
\setcounter{page}{0}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{Preface} %want section number to be 0
\lipsum[1-3]
\chapter{Start From Here}
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}
So, how can I set the 0 number on the title page (and not before), without having a useless empty page?
N.B.: This behaviour seems working only with the class book.
Best Answer
The titlepage environment used by \maketitle does a \cleardoublepage and forces the title on an odd page. The 0 on the first page is simply from the header -- you could suppress it with \thispagestyle{empty}.
You can use the
notitlepage
option to avoid the extra page: