Page Layout ⇒ Page numbers gone mad!!

[marzmurphy]

Hi All,

Sorry was wondering if anyone could help with an issue..or point me in the right direction!!

Ive been using latex happy out and ive just noticed that the page numbers are on different places on nearly every page, from the middle bottom, left , right top etc.!!! any ideas on how to fix this?!
Thanks anyone who might be able to help

Rgrds Marz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marz,

welcome to the board!
Do you use standard page numbers like in LaTeX plain or headings style, or do you use a package like fancyhdr or scrpage2 to output page numbers in your document? Do you get errors or warnings? Could you post a compilable code example, like your code but reduced, that's showing the behaviour? We need more information.

Stefan

[marzmurphy]

Hi,

Thanks for the speedy reply!!!! No I wasnt getting any warnings, at all. Ive included a snap shot of the problem where the you can see teh number is center on one page and the top right in the next

The according output.

pagenumbers-output.jpg (92.26 KiB) Viewed 5644 times

The source code.

pagenumbers-source.jpg (97.58 KiB) Viewed 5644 times

Ive last included a sap shot of the compiler code. I tink its just the noarmal latex page numbers.

Would this be enough info? i tired to input packages code but it moved teh centering of the whole document along with centering the page numbers so wasnt sure what to do after that!!

Thanks for your help stefan!!!!

[localghost]

This behaviour is quite usual. The upper page seems to be a chapter which means a page where a chapter starts. These pages are intended to differ in their layout from other pages to make them distinguishable from other pages while browsing a printed document.

Source code can be posted by using the code environment of the forum. You can find the according button right above the input window while composing a post.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[marzmurphy]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply....!!. Hoping you might be able to see whats causing the error!!! (Sorry i pasted the whole code in there.)Or if you might have any work around solution. Im only a beginner with latex and its been great so far. Unfortunately ive been writing my thesis using it and well its due tomorrow!! My own fault for not checking I only just noticed the page numbers were off!!!!! YIIKES!!![

Thanks for any help/advise that you might be able to give

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

That behavior is common, like Thorsten said. But if you really want it to be equal you could redefine the plain page style like here:

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

That should work if you're using page style headings.

Stefan

[localghost]

[…] Hoping you might be able to see whats causing the error!!! […]

There is no error. If you want to change that behaviour, you can choose another page style by means of the \pagestyle command or use packages like fancyhdr or titlesec to define your own.

Obviously you have chosen the page style »headings« for your document. If you want your chapter pages also to appear in this page style, add a few lines to your preamble like shown below.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@headings   % switch plain page style to headings
\makeatother

\pagestyle{headings}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}