Page Layout ⇒ Definition of a new Page Style

[corey979]

I'm writing a thesis in a two-sided document using the »book« class. I want to define a new page style so that when I type \thispagestyle{thesis} I will have the page number on the right side in the footer. Unfortunately, the only definition I found was

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\makeatletter
\newcommand{\ps@thesis}{
\renewcommand{\@oddfoot}{\thepage}
}
\makeatother

which as I understood is just setting the page number on the center. How can I define it to be in the right of the footer?

[localghost]

Usually new page styles are set up by packages like fancyhdr or titleps (split from titlesec).

Without any package you can try these lines.

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\makeatletter
\def\ps@thesis{%
  \let\@oddhead\@empty%
  \let\@evenhead\@empty%
  \def\@oddfoot{\reset@font\hfil\thepage}%
  \def\@evenfoot{\reset@font\thepage\hfil}%
}
\makeatother

For a better appearance you should also define the footer of even pages (see code above).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[corey979]

Thank you, that works and is what I needed