I use book document class with fancy page numbers. it should disply the page number on the right in even pages and on the left in odd pages. It does through the document
but not on the first page in each chapter 
. An example is attached and here is the preamble I used.Code: Select all
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
%% first reset the headers and footers
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
%% make the odd pages have the section name on the top right
\fancyhead[LE]{\sffamily\bfseries \rightmark}
%% make the even pages have the chapter name on the top left
\fancyhead[RO]{\sffamily\bfseries \leftmark}
%% page nums on the bottom in a nice box
%% even side pages
\fancyfoot[RO]{\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}
%% odd side pages
\fancyfoot[LE]{\psboxit{box 1 setgray fill}
{\hspace{\textwidth}\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}}
%% make the bottom line above the page number box
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.6pt}
\renewcommand{\footruleskip}{0mm}
%% bring the style into effect
%% (must come after all the fancyhead and fancyfoot stuff)
\pagestyle{fancy}
%% now redefine the plain style pages (chapter pages, contents pages)
%% to have the same page number stuff on the bottom
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[RO]{\psboxit{box 1 setgray fill}
{\hspace{\textwidth}\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
}
%% this next section (till \makeatother) makes sure that blank pages
%% are actually completely blank, cause they're not usually
\makeatletter
\def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
\hbox{}
\vspace*{\fill}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother
