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greybadger
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Page number in acknowledgments section

Post by greybadger »

Hi,

On this topic page http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =47&t=5464, I found a very handy snippet of code to emulate the Abstract page formatting for an Acknowledgments page (I've added the thispagestyle line):

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Code, edit and compile here:
\makeatletter
\newcommand\ackname{Acknowledgements}
\if@titlepage
\newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
\titlepage
\thispagestyle{plain}
\null\vfil
\@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
\begin{center}%
\bfseries \ackname
\@endparpenalty\@M
\end{center}}%
{\par\vfil\null\endtitlepage}
\else
\newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
\if@twocolumn
\section*{\abstractname}%
\else
\small
\begin{center}%
{\bfseries \ackname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{\z@}}%
\end{center}%
\quotation
\fi}
{\if@twocolumn\else\endquotation\fi}
\fi
\makeatother
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This works very nicely, except that page numbers are starting at 1 each time this environment (or similar others) are used. How can I force the page numbering to follow the correct sequence? I could force it by hand in each section defined as above, but that's not very elegant.

Thanks,
GB.

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gmedina
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Page number in acknowledgments section

Post by gmedina »

Hi,

in the above code, replace \titlepage with \clearpage.
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greybadger
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Re: Page number in acknowledgments section

Post by greybadger »

Magic, thanks!
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