LyX ⇒ Thesis HELP!!!!! (format and page numbers)

[Ry J]

I am having issues getting the format of my Masters thesis right so I can submit it.

I need to have the front matter in Roman numerals and the title page has to count as page one, but not have a visible page number.

so far I have got the roman numerals working but when it passes by my abstract it stops counting and then starts counting form one afterwards again.

I am using the Report document class. Can anyone help. This is urgent.

[php1ic]

I don't know a general way to stop the page counter reseting, but you could try using

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\setcounter{page}{5}

or whatever number you need before/after the abstract, if you run out of time and no other solutions are suggested.

[Ry J]

I don't know a general way to stop the page counter reseting, but you could try using

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\setcounter{page}{5}

or whatever number you need before/after the abstract, if you run out of time and no other solutions are suggested.

How do I force the abstract to have a page number though, because so far one is not present

[php1ic]

I'm sorry, I don't know

You could add the abstract 'manually' using page breaks as needed, and the \setcounter command previously mentioned, something like

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\pagenumbering{roman}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\hfill
\vspace{0.3\textheight}

\begin{center}
\textbf{Abstract}\\[1em]
This is my abstract
\end{center}
\cleapage

This seems like an ugly hack so you may need to change the above code for your case. However, it should work.

[Ry J]

I'm sorry, I don't know

You could add the abstract 'manually' using page breaks as needed, and the \setcounter command previously mentioned, something like

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\pagenumbering{roman}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\hfill
\vspace{0.3\textheight}

\begin{center}
\textbf{Abstract}\\[1em]
This is my abstract
\end{center}
\cleapage

This seems like an ugly hack so you may need to change the above code for your case. However, it should work.

Thanks you were a big help. I managed to get it in there ok and just dropped the "abstract" section and made my own using \newline and such.