Make the setting fancyhdr for \frontmatter is same as for \mainmatter

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\documentclass[twoside,11pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,xcolor,lipsum}
\let\Chaptermark\chaptermark
\def\chaptermark#1{\def\Chaptername{#1}\Chaptermark{#1}}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot{}
\colorlet{myfancycolor}{black}
\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{
    \renewcommand*\footrulewidth{1pt}
    \fancyfoot[OR]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hfil
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[OL]{%
        \Chaptername
    }    
    \fancyfoot[EL]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[ER]{%
        \rightmark{ 
            \footnotesize\textbf{INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB}
        }
    }
}
\pagestyle{mystyle}
\begin{document}
    \frontmatter
    \chapter{PREFACE}
    \lipsum[1-5]
    \tableofcontents
    \mainmatter
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
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\end{document}

I have a problem in making footer. In \mainmatter is no problem. In \frontmatter there is a problem.

I want the even page the footer is book title (with page number) and the odd page is chapter name (with page number). The result in \mainmatter is no problem. But in \frontmatter, if I make chapter preface, the footer of TOC (in odd page) is "PREFACE". Also, in even page, "CONTENTS" appear with book title. (see my picture above)

Why the setting fancyhdr is not in accordance with setting as for \mainmatter?

How to make the setting fancyhdr for \frontmatter is same as for \mainmatter?

ADDENDUM:

\documentclass[twoside,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,papersize={15.5cm,23.5cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum,xcolor,hyperref}
\let\Chaptermark\chaptermark
\def\chaptermark#1{\def\Chaptername{#1}\Chaptermark{#1}}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot{}
\colorlet{myfancycolor}{black}
\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{
    %\renewcommand*\footrulewidth{1pt}
    \fancyfoot[OR]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hfil
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[OL]{%
        \footnotesize\textbf{\nouppercase{\Chaptername}}%
    }    
    \fancyfoot[EL]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[ER]{%
        \footnotesize\textbf{INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB}%
    }
}
\fancypagestyle{frontmatter}[mystyle]{
    \fancyfoot[OL]{%
        \footnotesize\textbf{\nouppercase{\Chaptername}}%
    }
}

\begin{document}
    \frontmatter
    \pagestyle{frontmatter}
    \chapter{PREFACE}
    \lipsum[1-20]
    {%
        \cleardoublepage
        \newpage
        \renewcommand{\Chaptername}{CONTENTS}
        \phantomsection\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{CONTENTS}
        \tableofcontents
    }%
    \mainmatter
    \pagestyle{mystyle}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
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\end{document}

I have tried Pieter van Oostrum's answer and there is little modification from me.

But, the result in footer of contents is "PREFACE".

Best Answer

Remove the \rightmark from the footer.That didn't make sense anyway, I think.

    \fancyfoot[ER]{%
            \footnotesize\textbf{INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB}%
    }

You use \Chaptername in the left footer, so you have to set that.

    \frontmatter
    \chapter{PREFACE}
    \lipsum[1-5]
    \newpage
    \renewcommand{\Chaptername}{CONTENTS}
    \tableofcontents
    \mainmatter

Now, if you also are going to use the "capitalise words" trick in the footer, like in one of your previous questions, this will be changed to "Contents" instead of "CONTENTS". If you don't want that then you would need a \fancyfoot[OL] without the \mycapswords. The safest way to do that is to define a pagestyle front matter for that.

Here is a complete example. NOTE: The \fancypagestyle with the optional argument needs fancyhdr version 4.

\documentclass[twoside,11pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,xcolor,lipsum}

\usepackage{mfirstuc}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newcommand\mycapswords[1]{\ecapitalisewords{\text_lowercase:n {#1}}}
\ExplSyntaxOff

\let\Chaptermark\chaptermark
\def\chaptermark#1{\def\Chaptername{#1}\Chaptermark{#1}}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot{}
\colorlet{myfancycolor}{black}
\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{
    \renewcommand*\footrulewidth{1pt}
    \fancyfoot[OR]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hfil
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[OL]{%
        \mycapswords{\Chaptername}%
    }    
    \fancyfoot[EL]{%
        \kern-3ex % all material is shifted up by 3ex
        \color{myfancycolor}
        \hrule height1pt % your \hrule
        \hbox{\rlap{\vrule height1.3em width2em depth.7em}% you black box
            \hbox to2em{\hss\color{white}{\textsf{\thepage}}\hss}}%
    }
    \fancyfoot[ER]{%
            \footnotesize\textbf{INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB}%
    }
}
\fancypagestyle{frontmatter}[mystyle]{
    \fancyfoot[OL]{%
        \Chaptername
    }
}

\begin{document}
    \frontmatter
    \pagestyle{frontmatter}
    \chapter{PREFACE}
    \lipsum[1-5]
    \newpage
    \renewcommand{\Chaptername}{CONTENTS}
    \tableofcontents
    \mainmatter
    \pagestyle{mystyle}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
    \chapter{LALALA LALALA LALALA}
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\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to let all the pagestyle of pages from \frontmatter to \mainmatter empty

According to the revised version of the question, you (may) want:

\documentclass{book}                                                        
\usepackage{lipsum, fancyhdr}                                               

\begin{document}                                                            

\pagestyle{empty}                                                           
% pagestyle{plain}                                                          
\frontmatter                                                                

\lipsum[1]                                                                  

\mainmatter                                                                 
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\chapter{1}                                                                 
\section{1}                                                                 
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\backmatter                                                                 
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\lipsum[1]                                                                  

\end{document}

Edit: If you want to wrap these changes into a .sty file, you could do this:

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01]                                        
\ProvidesPackage{myfile}                                                    
  [2012/05/02 v0.01 modifications to the *matter commands]                  


\RequirePackage{etoolbox}                                                   
\appto\frontmatter{\pagestyle{empty}}                                       
\appto\mainmatter{\pagestyle{fancy}}                                        
\appto\backmatter{\pagestyle{empty}}                                        


\endinput

Name this file myfile.sty and load it in the preamble of your document with the usual \usepackage{myfile}. Note that the name of this file is arbitrary, and the first three lines as well as the last line are not strictly needed.

However, I do not really see the advantage of hard-wiring such changes into the \*matter commands, even if I agree with the idea that generic formatting changes are often better put into a .sty file for complex documents.

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It's not entirely clear to me from the question (I'd use a report- or book-like class for this type of thing), but perhaps

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyfoot{}%
  \fancyhead{}%
}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[L]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[L]{Footer}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\title{My awesome title}
\renewcommand*{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{}}
\author{Myself}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
\newpage
\pagestyle{fancy}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{abstract}
Hello world.
\end{abstract}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\section{A demo}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Foo bar baz.
\end{document}

is about what you are after.

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