Page Layout ⇒ Report page numbering

[CJFugate]

I want to have my pag numbering start at page 2 with the page numbering in the top right corner. When I use this code

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footers
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % remove the header rule
\rhead{\thepage}
\setcounter{page}{2}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{fancy}

it works just the way I want it. However, when I change the document class from article to report so that I can have chapter titles, sections, etc., it doesn't work anymore.

[CJFugate]

I found the solution, so I thought I'd post it in case someone else looks for it here. I found it on another forum. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... r-position
Basically, the \chapter command defaults to a plain page style. To specify the page style you need, add the \thispagestyle command after the \chapter command.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Well, "it doesn't work anymore" is perhaps not the best problem description.

A better solution than the one from TeX.SX, using \thispagestyle many times, would be using

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{\pagestyle{fancy}}

in the preamble, or with a similar argument, or redefine the plain page style, just once in the preamble:

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\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy
\makeatother

Stefan

[CJFugate]

Sorry, I'm really bad at describing my problem on a forum without dumbing all of my code on there. Alright, I tried

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{\pagestyle{myheadings}}

. I put it just after

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\pagestyle{myheadings}

in the preamble. I then removed

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\thispagestyle{myheadings}

from my my pages in my document. I just get a header line and no page number like I do when I use

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\thispagestyle{myheadings}

. I trust that your solution works and that I am implementing it incorrectly.


Thanks

[cgnieder]

Sorry, I'm really bad at describing my problem on a forum without dumbing all of my code on there.

Doesn't need to be all your code. In fact very much better and very helpful to give you precise advice would be a minimal working example instead.

Regards