header-footerpage-numberingtitles
I want to suppress page numbers. I am also using \maketitle command which seems to trigger the problem. MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,english]{article}
\title{My title}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
Hello World
\end{document}
I do not see a problem with your MWE. The first chapter is on page 5, the same page number as the entry in the table of contents.
You mentioned \addcontentsline. If the command gets on the previous page, then also
the page number is taken from the previous page. Make sure that \addcontentsline is on the right page, e.g.:
\cleardoublepage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
\chapter*{Acknowledgments}
or
\chapter*{Acknowledgments}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
The dual title in twocolumn mode causes the page breaks. Perhaps you'd just be interested in setting the title manually. Below I've taken the \maketitle constructions from the titling package code:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% Just for this example
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[{
\begin{center}
\LARGE First title
\end{center}
\vskip 2em
\begin{center}
\large \lineskip .75em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
Author1, Author2
\end{tabular}\par
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large \today
\end{center}
\vspace{2\baselineskip}
\begin{center}
\LARGE Second title
\end{center}
\vskip 2em
\begin{center}
\large \lineskip .75em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
Author1, Author2
\end{tabular}\par
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large \today
\end{center}
}]
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}
You can now adjust the spacing and font to your liking.
Best Answer
You need to set the page style after
\maketitlesince\maketitlesets the page using\thispagestyle{plain}(which overwrites your request for it to beempty):If you wish to suppress the page numbering for all pages within your article, you should add
\pagestyle{empty}to your document preamble.The
articledocument class also supports thetitlepageoption, which typesets an entire page (atitlepage) when using\maketitle. Such a page is necessarily issued using\thispagestyle{empty}. That is, without any header/footer.