Page Layout ⇒ How to remove page numbers from my document?

[apleto]

Hello,

I am using IEEETrans to write a paper. I am not submitting it to an IEEE Transactions publication, but I 'm just using this document class because I thought it is very neat and well implemented.

Anyway, I don't want any page numbers on my paper. I tried to comment out the following lines in IEEETrans.cls but that resulted in about 50 errors while trying to build my paper. I can't understand why.

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%% SET UP THE DEFAULT PAGESTYLE
\ps@headings
\pagenumbering{arabic}

% normally the page counter starts at 1
\setcounter{page}{1}
% however, for peerreview the cover sheet is page 0 or page -1
% (for duplex printing)
\ifCLASSOPTIONpeerreview
  \if@twoside
      \setcounter{page}{-1}
   \else
      \setcounter{page}{0}
   \fi
\fi

Is there a better and easier way to get rid off page numbers from my paper, but still use IEEETran document class?

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi apleto,

try

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\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty
\let\ps@headings\ps@empty
\makeatother

like noted in Modifying plain page style.

Stefan

[apleto]

Unfortunately the above does not work...

Is there anything else I can do?

Why when I comment out the code mentioned above in the .cls file that generates more errors?

Should I change something in the .cls file?

Should I change something in the source file of my document (i.e. the .tex file)?

[phi]

First of all, never make private changes to a class or package, they would make your system hard to maintain and update over time. Every change should go into the document (.tex) file. The following should do the job:

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\documentclass{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\def\do#1{\patchcmd{#1}{\thepage}{\null}{}{\GenericWarning{}{Could not patch \string#1}}}
\docsvlist{\@oddhead,\@evenhead,\ps@headings,\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle,\ps@IEEEpeerreviewcoverpagestyle}
\makeatother


\begin{document}

\Blinddocument

\end{document}