Page Layout ⇒ Changing page numbers to letters AND numbers

[pooley343]

Hi everyone, I hope you can help.

I am writing a report and there are three clear parts each with different styles of page numbering. The first two I have been able to do, (these were lower case roman, and standard).

However, the third part is the appendix, for which each section is named A,B,C etc. What I want to do is to make the page number the section plus the page number.

i.e A1, A2, A3... for appendix A
B1, B2, B3... for appendix B and so on.

I am able to do this in the document by adding a \sectionname command in the footer but the problem arises because the table of contents obviously doesn't recognise the letter.

Is there a way of defining the page to be both a letter (the appendix letter) AND the page number of the appendix and to make it appear correctly in the toc?

Thanks.

[localghost]

You can use the chappg package. Consider the following example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[auto]{chappg}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \Blinddocument
  \appendix
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

I didn't look into the manual for customization. So you will have to do that on your own.


Best regards
Thorsten¹