Remove page number of section heading page

Question

I am writing a report and want to have roman numerals numbering the pages prior to my Introduction section. I have the following:

\begin{document}

\pagenumbering{gobble}

\input{Chapters/titlePage}

\pagenumbering{roman}

\chapter*{\centering Executive Summary}
\input{Chapters/executiveSummary}

\newpage
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\chapter{Introduction} %I want the first page of my introduction chapter to
                       %count as page one of my document but not be displayed. 
                       %However, I would like to display the second page with 
                       %arabic numbering.
\input{Chapters/introduction}

The issue I have is I don't know how many lines in my LaTeX code will fit on the first page, so I can't just use

\pagenumbering{gobble}> and then \pagenumbering{arabic}>

One solution I have thought of is just putting the text in and figuring out how many lines are used before a new page is created, then implementing the page numbering there, but it seems that there must be an alternative that is modular.

Thanks!

Note: Document class is report.

Answer 1

You can use \thispagestyle{empty} right after the first \chapter command.

Here is the usage:

                \documentclass[]{report} 
                \usepackage{lipsum}
                \begin{document}
                \chapter{introduction}
                \thispagestyle{empty}
                \lipsum
                \end{document}

Which produces:

on the first page of the introduction, and:

from the second on

Answer 2

This is what page styles are for since they are bound to the page, rather than the numbering.

You want some specific chapter's first page to behave differently from other pages within your document, so create a specific chapfirstpage style using fancyhdr (or use empty if you just want it blank):

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}
\fancypagestyle{chapterfirstpage}{%
  \fancyhf{}% clear header/footer
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove page header rule
  %\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove page footer rule (default)
}

\begin{document}

% ... more document content

\clearpage
\chapter{A chapter}
\thispagestyle{chapterfirstpage}% ...or \thispagestyle{empty}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\lipsum[1-50]

% ... more document content

\end{document}

Note that the page style is set to chapterfirstpage (or empty) after \chapter, since \chapter itself executes \thispagestyle{plain} (by default).