Page Layout ⇒ customizing page numbers

[komal]

Except for the title page, number all pages which come before the first page of the body chapters consecutively with lower case roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv…). The first page with Arabic numeral (1, 2, 3, and so on) starts from the first page of Chapter 1, but it is mentioned from page 2 onwards. Mention the page numbers on the top right of the page. The first page of each chapter will not carry the page number; however the page number will be counted for the proceeding page.

Is this possible ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi!

Regarding the numbering, you can declare lower case roman by

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\pagenumbering{roman}

and switch to Arabic, beginning from 1, by

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\pagenumbering{arabic}

Page numbers are always counted, even if they are not visible. The first page of a chapter usually carries the page number at the bottom, which is plain page style, while other pages can be numbered at the top. The plain style is very common, however it can be changed to empty if you really wish that.

For printing page numbers and possibly running headers, you can use fancyhdr.

Stefan

[localghost]

Page numbering can be altered with some simple switches (but by default only in the »book« class). Page styles (and much more other things) can easily be done with the titlesec package. See the below example for some inspiration.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[raggedright,pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\author{komal}
\title{Page numbers customized easily}

\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{empty}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
    
  \frontmatter
  \tableofcontents
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables

  \mainmatter	
  \blinddocument
	
	\appendix
	\blinddocument
	
	\backmatter
	\begin{thebibliography}{9}
    \bibitem{key} Bibliography Item
  \end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Note that the commands \frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter do more than only to alter the page numbering. \frontmatter and \backmatter also turn off chapter numbering.

The blindtext package is only for creating dummy text, thus no part of the solution.


Thorsten