Page Layout ⇒ Inconsistent page numbering

[MacGuffin]

Hi all

I'm having a problem getting the page numbers of my document to display correctly. I'm writing my degree dissertation, and I need to include an abstract. I currently have:

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\documentclass[10pt,twoside,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{mystyle}
\begin{document}
\sffamily

\input{./tex/titlepage.tex}
\cleardoublepage
\subfile{./tex/abstractpage.tex}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\cleardoublepage

\begin{multicols}{2}

%% BODY OF DOCUMENT %%

\end{multicols}
\end{document}

So my problem is in two parts: firstly, the page number is displayed on the blank page between the title and the abstract as '2', then the abstract with no page number, then the ToC appears, also marked as page '2', and then numbering continues from there. If I could make the '2' on the blank page disappear that would be enough to satisfy what I need.

The second part of the problem is that the whole document is formatted in sans serif using the \sffamily command, but I can't get the page numbers to display in sans serif at all.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

McG

[meho_r]

Hi,

We'll need a complete Minimal Working Example.

[frabjous]

To typeset an entire document in sans serif, you’d be better off with something like:

\renewcommand*{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

to make sans-serif the default font. \sffamily isn’t going to work as well for this. I think that should fix that issue.

For the other issue, yeah, we need to see a full working document and not a bunch of \input commands which link to who-knows-what?

[MacGuffin]

Thanks guys - the formatting problem is now solved.

That just leaves the weird page numbering. I think this pretty accurately sums up the problem (I've removed all formatting commands and anything relating to page layout, etc). It compiles without errors, but it still has the page numbering problem.

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\documentclass[10pt,twoside,a4paper]{report}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
Title//
My Name//
Date
\vfill
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
\cleardoublepage

\begin{abstract}
text
\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\cleardoublepage

text

\end{document}

Thanks for any help.

McG

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The abstract environment uses a titlepage environment internally. The latter resets the pagecounter. For example, the option notitlepage would fix the numbering and the abstract would be typeset differently.

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\documentclass[10pt,twoside,a4paper,notitlepage]{report}

Stefan

[MacGuffin]

Thanks, that's solved the numbering problem although it does give me a formatting issue with the abstract page, but it's nothing I can't manage now.

Thanks.
McG