Page Layout ⇒ fancyhdr | Footer & Header with Roman & Arabic Page Numbers

[max_mad666]

Hello everybody,

I would like to print a twoside document in order to read it like a book. So basically about the page numbers it should look like that.

• The page number of left pages need to be at the very left side.
• The page number of right pages need to be at the very right side.

I use fancyhdr package and the code is :

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\lhead[]{}
\chead[]{}
\rhead[]{}
\lfoot[\thepage]{Title}
\cfoot[]{}
\rfoot[Titre]{\thepage}

But the fact is that my first pages are beginning with Roman numbers and then with continue with Arabic numbers.

It's good working for the Roman numbers :

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PageNumber & Title |||| Title & PageNumber

But when it switches to the arabic number the page are inside the paper:

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Title & PageNumber |||| PageNumber & Title

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But I want it like :

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PageNumber & Title |||| Title & PageNumber

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I may add one more Roman page to solve the issue. But this is not possible in my case. So how can i solve my issue.

Thank you so much


P.-S. I've spend lot of time doing research about it on Google but I still can't solve my problem.

[cgnieder]

Without a minimal working example everythings is just guessing, since I don't want to build one of my own.

You might want to try the package scrpage2 from the koma-script bundle instead of fancyhdr. It provides \ifoot (inner foot) and \ofoot (outer foot).

Regards

[Stefan Kottwitz]

fancyhdr is capable of working with a two-sided layout, such as by

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\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[LO,RE]{Title}

Just be aware that the after a \pagenumbering{arabic} command the next page will be numbered 1, so it would become an odd-numbered, i.e. right-hand page, even if the previous page had already an odd number.

Stefan

[cgnieder]

I've been working »KOMA-Sript only« for too long, it seems... I might have remembered the \fancyfoot, else...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's always good to recommend scrpage2 as a very good alternative, even with standard classes. It could become a start to work with KOMA-Script later on.

Stefan

[max_mad666]

Hello,
Thank you for your recommendation. However, I forget to tell you that I'm using XeLaTeX and I cannot use the Koma class...

@Stefan_K

I'm afraid but I've tried :

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\fancyhead[LE,RO]{}
\fancyhead[LO, RE]{}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{Title}
\fancyfoot[LO, RE]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{}

But I still have the same issue because either the pages of the roman numbers or either the arabic number will be in the center (cf. printscreen). I'm sorry but I still don't get how to solve the issue... (solving witouth Komma script I mean...)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The page number will be in the center by default on pages with plain page styles. However, you could use

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{}

to change that, see 7 Redefining plain style in the fancyhdr manual.

Stefan

[max_mad666]

Hello,
I guess I don't understand the concept I've tried many different possibilities but I still can't make it work. I execute the following example with the command line :

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xelatex main.tex
xelatex main.tex

Here is my example.

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\documentclass[11pt,french, twoside]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia} 
\usepackage{csquotes} 
\setdefaultlanguage{english} 
\setmainfont[Numbers=OldStyle,Mapping=tex-text]{Myriad Pro}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} 
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=2.5cm,bmargin=2.5cm,lmargin=3.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm}
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\pagestyle{fancy} 
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{titlesec} 
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Arabic pages after Table of Contents
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
\pagenumbering{roman}
\let\myTABLES\tableofcontents
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
\myTABLES
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
}

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Custom header and footer
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
\fancyhead[LO]{}
\fancyhead[RO]{} %\rightmark
\fancyhead[LE]{}
\fancyhead[RE]{} %\rightmark
\fancyfoot[LO,RE]{Title\\ Author Name}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{}
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Make@other & Make@letter
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
\makeatletter
\makeatother

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Each section = new page
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
\let\stdsection\section
\renewcommand\section{\newpage\stdsection}

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Document 
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
\begin{document}
	\section*{First page empty}
	\lipsum[2]
	\thispagestyle{empty} 
	
	\section*{Some page with roman number}
	\lipsum[1]
	
	\tableofcontents{}
	
	\section{Arabic starts here but pages numbers are on wrong side}
	\lipsum
\end{document}

Output samples are attached.

Thanks a lot

[cgnieder]

Everything is working as it should. However, you have two odd pages following each other (iii and 1). That's why the page number is on the same side (as defined for odd pages by you). If you change

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\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
  \myTABLES\clearpage\pagenumbering{arabic}}

into

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\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
  \myTABLES\cleardoublepage\pagenumbering{arabic}}

Everything looks fine.

Regards

[max_mad666]

Wowwwwwww nice, thank you so much for your help.