Page Layout ⇒ How can I number from the title page to the end of the doc?

[lemonicetea]

Hi all,

I am currently writing my PhD thesis. My uni says the thesis must be numbered from the title page to the end of the document. My thesis has following layout.

1. title page (manual format)
2. abstract
3. list of figures
4. list of tables
5. table of contents
6. text

I found that the page numbers of both abstract and contents will be automatically set to 1. Could someone tell me how can I force the page number start from the literally first page to the end? Thank you.

[localghost]

[…] I found that the page numbers of both abstract and contents will be automatically set to 1. […]

Not the usual behaviour. Build a minimal working example (MWE) that shows this.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[lemonicetea]

Thanks for your replay.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=4.5cm,right=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[margin=10pt,font=footnotesize,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage[singlespacing]{setspace}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{units}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of Abbreviations}
\makenomenclature
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
Manual titlepage format here
\newpage \vspace*{8cm}
here goes dedication
\end{titlepage}

\onehalfspacing
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\setstretch{0.8}
\nomenclature{PDB}{Protein Data Bank} %abbreviation
\printnomenclature[3cm]

\doublespacing

\chapter{blah}
\section{blah-blah}
here goes my thesis text
\begin{spacing}{1}
\bibliographystyle{kluwer}
\bibliography{./biblio}
\end{spacing}
\end{document} 

does this make sense?

[localghost]

This code snippet is useless and not a MWE. It uses the \input command to load unknown external files. Build a MWE that is small, complete and compilable for everyone without any additional external files, new command declarations or packages that are irrelevant to the problem. For instructions please follow the link in my last reply.

[lemonicetea]

Sorry about that.I am new to LATEX..I have modified the code and could you please have a check for me about that problem..Thank you so much!

[localghost]

Place the stuff concerning the dedication outside the titlepage environment.

[lemonicetea]

Thank you so much for your quick reply..But once I added my abstract in..The problem is still there.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=4.5cm,right=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[margin=10pt,font=footnotesize,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage[singlespacing]{setspace}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{units}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of Abbreviations}
\makenomenclature
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
Manual titlepage format here

\end{titlepage}
%here goes dedication
\newpage \vspace*{8cm}
here goes dedication
\newpage

%abstract
\begin{abstract}
here goes abstract.I have two pages of these
\end{abstract}

\onehalfspacing
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\setstretch{0.8}
\nomenclature{PDB}{Protein Data Bank} %abbreviation
\printnomenclature[3cm]

\doublespacing

\chapter{blah}
\section{blah-blah}
here goes my thesis text
\begin{spacing}{1}
\bibliographystyle{kluwer}
\bibliography{./biblio}
\end{spacing}
\end{document}

The problems now are:
1.The page number start from 1 at 'dedication' page..I want it to start from 2 at 'dedication' page
2.The abstract restart the page numbering from 1 and without displaying it. However, the 2nd page of abstract will show a page number of 2.
3.the 'table of contents' now have a page number 1 as well.

[localghost]

At the moment I have no other solution than using the \setcounter command to assign the right value to the page counter at the critical places.

[lemonicetea]

To localghost.. Thank you so much for your help. I finally manually format the abstract section and now everything seems fine.