\pagestyle{empty} on first page in LaTeXIf you use \pagestyle{empty}, but the first page is numbered anyway,
you are probably using the \maketitle command too. The behaviour
is not a bug but a feature! The standard LaTeX styles are written so that
initial pages (pages containing a \maketitle, \part, or
\chapter) have a different page style from the rest of the document;
to achieve this, the commands internally issue
\thispagestyle{plain}. This is usually not acceptable behaviour if
the surrounding page style is 'empty'.
Possible workarounds include:
\thispagestyle{empty} immediately after the \maketitle
command, with no blank line between them.