General ⇒ pagenumbering

[noctilux]

hello!

is there a possibility, that some pages are without a pagenumber and wihtout counting it?
(in my paper is after the titlepage a page with the bibliographic details and the abstract. this page should be without a pagenumber so that the TOC will start with "1")

[pumpkinegan]

Depending on what you are trying to do, you could try things like:

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\addtocounter{page}{-1}

This will let you subtract 1 page from the numbering.

Perhaps you will need a

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\thispagestyle{empty}

somewhere. This will clear the page of the pagenumber.

The simple case would look something like:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{3cm}
\begin{center}
\Huge {Title of report} 
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm} 
\begin{center} 
\Large {Firstname Surname} \\[3pt]  
\textit{Affiliation} \\ 
\textit{Address} \\ [1cm] 
\today \end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\section{Abstract and bibliography section}
\clearpage
\addtocounter{page}{-1}
\section{First section}

\end{document}

However, if you are using a style file or some custom class, this may not be straightforward.

Patrick.

[hormiga123]

Does anyone know whether it's feasible to display pagenumbers centered within hyphens? (e.g. -1-)
If yes how?

Many thanks!

[balf]

Quite easy :in your preamble, simply write:
\renewcommand{\thepage}{-- \arabic{page} --}
if you want an endash.

B.A.

[hormiga123]

Thanks already!
Unfortunately it is a little bit more complicated:
I am working with lyX so I only use pieces of Latex code here and then in the document.

I don't have a page number on the first page, then the table of contents, figures, tables etc is numbered in roman, then it begins anew with arabic page numbers. So far my code on the relevant pages looks the following:

On the first pages:
\pagestyle{myheadings}\pagenumbering{Roman}

Later on:
\pagestyle{myheadings} \pagenumbering{arabic}

Now i'd only like to center them and have the dashes...