Document Classes ⇒ fancyhdr and table of contents and page numbering

[darckhart]

Sorry for the long post in advance... there's snippets of code I wanted to show.

I did a quick search for table of contents and fancyhdr problems, but found nothing related, so here goes.

I am having a bit of trouble with numbering. I am using the fancyhdr package to add headers and footers. All my front matter pages should be roman numeral and centered at bottom. Main matter pages should be arabic numeral and in top right.

In addition to the plain style, I defined two new styles.

I have defined a new fancy style I called fancyplain style like so for the front matter pages

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\fancypagestyle{fancyplain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % except the center
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}
 
 
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I have defined a new fancy style I called fancy style like so for the main matter pages

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\lfoot{DRAFT}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\today}
 
 
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I called them in my document like so:

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\thispagestyle{plain}
\include{abstract}
\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
I would like to thank \ldots
%------------ Table of Contents ------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents{}
%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
%------------ List of Tables ---------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\listoftables{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
%------------ List of Figures --------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\listoffigures{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
%------------ Acronyms List ----------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\chapter*{List of Acronyms}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}
\acro[html]{hypertext markup language}
\end{acronym}
 
 
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The results are:
abstract page with no header and footer GOOD
acknowledgments page with centered footer roman numeral GOOD (but not sure how that worked)
TOC page with no header and footer BAD
LOT page with centered footer roman numeral GOOD
LOF page with centered footer roman numeral GOOD
LOA page with no header and footer BAD

How can I get the page number of the Table of Contents page to show? The TOC page is vi and should show up in the center footer, but doesn't. Same problem with the List of Acronyms page, which should be x, but doesn't show.

TIA.

[gmedina]

I'm confused:

TOC page with no header and footer BAD...
LOA page with no header and footer BAD

However, you explicitly define and use in the TOC and in the LOA a page style that removes headers and footers (except for the page number in the center of the footer):

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\fancypagestyle{fancyplain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % except the center
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}
 
 
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At this point I don't know exactly what you want.

[darckhart]

\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % except the center

Thus, fancyplain style commands should yield blank header and centered footer with roman numeral. It does this correctly on both LOT page and LOF page, but not on TOC page and LOA page even though I am asking it to apply fancyplain to all four pages.

My question is why does it seem to disregard the explicit \thispagestyle{} commands for these pages. I am guessing it has something to do with the autogeneration of the content on those pages and latex doesn't know exactly where the pages end until it compiles through to the end of the document. I tried using \clearpage or \newpage after the call for the various pages (e.g., \listoffigures{}\clearpage), but that didn't work either. It would either still make blank header and footer, or apply fancy style.

[gmedina]

Thus, fancyplain style commands should yield blank header and centered footer with roman numeral. It does this correctly on both LOT page and LOF page, but not on TOC page and LOA page even though I am asking it to apply fancyplain to all four pages.

My question is why does it seem to disregard the explicit \thispagestyle{} commands for these pages. I am guessing it has something to do with the autogeneration of the content on those pages and latex doesn't know exactly where the pages end until it compiles through to the end of the document. I tried using \clearpage or \newpage after the call for the various pages (e.g., \listoffigures{}\clearpage), but that didn't work either. It would either still make blank header and footer, or apply fancy style.

Still don't see what is your problem, but try the following MWE:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancypagestyle{fancyplain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % except the center
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\lfoot{DRAFT}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\today}
\begin{document}
%------------ Frontmatter  -----------------------------------
\frontmatter
\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
I would like to thank \ldots
%------------ Table of Contents ------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
%------------ List of Tables -----------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
%------------ List of Figures ----------------------------------
\thispagestyle{fancyplain}
\listoffigures
 
 
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Edit: in fact, the above code is redundant, the \thispagestyle{fancyplain} commands are not needed, since the \frontmatter command takes charge of the roman numbering in the center of the foot.

[darckhart]

Hi thanks again for your reply and patience. However, i believe that the commands \frontmatter and \mainmatter are not available in the report type class and work only in the book type class.

I have figured out why the LOA page does not have the correct footer style and that is because it is the \chapter command that makes that particular page "special." I now think that this is the same reason why the footer does not show up on the TOC page. When I execute a \clearpage command after each (e.g., \listoffigures{}\clearpage), this also makes the page "special" and the footers will not show up.

Hm ok after a bit more fiddling I notice that all the Chapter title pages do not have headers nor footers. Is there a way to override this behavior and force headers and footers to show even on pages generated with the \chapter command?

[gmedina]

Hm ok after a bit more fiddling I notice that all the Chapter title pages do not have headers nor footers. Is there a way to override this behavior and force headers and footers to show even on pages generated with the \chapter command?

Yes, there is a way: write

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immediately after each \chapter command.

[jobi]

Here is a solution you may try, I found it while reading your posts :

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\tableofcontents{\thispagestyle{fancyplain}}
 
 
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And for all of your chapter to be identical to the remaining of the text, you can either write

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after the chapter commande
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and thus fixing the style of the headers. You may put it in the preambule, but also in your text, if you want to change style in the middle of your report...

[esther]

Here is a solution you may try, I found it while reading your posts :

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This didn't work for me. But as suggested by Thorsten in another related post, the command \fancypagestyle described in section 7 of the fancyhdr documentation allows to do the job.

I had another related problem: the white page before the TOC (and the bibliography) had the fancy style while I wanted it to be blank. The solution I found was to add a \newpage at the end of the previous chapter/section and to add the command \thispagestyle{empty} for this new page.