[Tex/LaTex] Suppress page number till table of contents in latex scrreprt and avoid that “contents” appears in ToC

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I'm writing my bachelor thesis in the documentclass scrreprt.

Unfortunately I can't suppress the page numbering, till the table of contents begins. The first two pages are empty. But then LaTeX starts numerating the pages in roman from 3 to 5, such that on the table of contents page there appears a small v. In addition to that the word contents appears itself in the ToC. I want to avoid this as well.

I was of course experimenting with \pagestyle{empty} and a lot of other things I found via googling but no result was appropriate to solve my problem. This what I have so far.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}  
\usepackage{tocbibind}   
\begin{document}  
\pagestyle{empty}  
%%%% Title page  
\begin{titlepage}
titlepage  
\begin{center}  
\end{center}  
\pagenumbering{roman}  
\vspace*{75mm}  
\end{titlepage}  
blabla  
\newpage  
\thispagestyle{empty}  
\pagestyle{empty}  
\chapter*{Acknowledgement}  
blabla
\newpage  
\pagestyle{empty}  
%%%% summary in mother tongue  
\chapter*{summary}  
\tableofcontents  
\newpage  
\thispagestyle{empty}  
\mbox{}  
\newpage
%%%% Page numbering restarts here  
\pagenumbering{arabic}  
\pagestyle{headings}    
\chapter{introduction}

I hope I stated the problem clearly.

Edit: I found a very simple solution to the problem that the content appears in itself. The command \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind} suppresses that the toc appears.

Best Answer

When you use commands like \chapter and \tableofcontents they implicity set \thispagestyle{plain}.

You can suppress this behavior in two ways:

  • putting \thispagestyle{empty} just after each of those commands.

In this case, your MWE can be changed to:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
%%%% Title page
\begin{titlepage}
titlepage
\begin{center}
\end{center}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\vspace*{75mm}
\end{titlepage}
blabla
\newpage
\chapter*{Acknowledgement}\thispagestyle{empty}
blabla
\newpage
%%%% summary in mother tongue
\chapter*{summary}\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\mbox{}
\newpage
%%%% Page numbering restarts here
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{headings}
\chapter{introduction}
\end{document}
  • redefining \chapterpagestyle at the beginning of the file and restoring it when you want to start your pages numbered

In this case, your MWE can be changed to:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand\chapterpagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}
%%%% Title page
\begin{titlepage}
titlepage
\begin{center}
\end{center}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\vspace*{75mm}
\end{titlepage}
blabla
\newpage
\chapter*{Acknowledgement}
blabla
\newpage
%%%% summary in mother tongue
\chapter*{summary}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\mbox{}
\newpage
%%%% Page numbering restarts here
\renewcommand\chapterpagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{headings}
\chapter{introduction}
\end{document}

In both ways your pages are numbered starting with the 'Introduction'.

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