[Tex/LaTex] Customize page numbering so all pages are equally formatted in book class

fancyhdrheader-footerpage-numbering

The title says it all. A friend is working on her thesis and we cannot figure out how to ensure that the page numbering is equally formatted on all the pages that display page numbers.

Default positioning has the page numbers altering left and right on even and odd pages, and at the bottom of the first page of every chapter.

Ideally she wants the the page numbers on every page printed on the top right corner of her book with no special formatting added for the first page of a chapter.

Any experience with this kind of customization?

Edit:

An MWE was requested and is therefore supplied.

\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\chapter{foo}
Special chapter title page. Page number positioned at bottom of page


\pagebreak
Normal body text. Page number positioned at top left corner of page.
\end{document}

Best Answer

To get all pages formatted with a page number in the center of the footer is quite simple with fancyhdr.

MWE 1

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[LE]{}
\fancyhead[RO]{}
\fancyhead[RE]{}
\fancyhead[LO]{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\begin{document}
\chapter{foo}
Special chapter title page. Page number positioned at bottom of page.


\pagebreak
Normal body text. Page number positioned at bottom of page again.
\end{document}

If you want all pages to have the number in the upper right, it's a tiny bit more complicated but still quite doable, see Section 7 of the fancyhdr manual.

MWE 2

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[LE]{}
\fancyhead[RO]{}
\fancyhead[RE]{}
\fancyhead[LO]{}
\fancyfoot[C]{}
\rhead{\thepage}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}
\chapter{foo}
Special chapter title page. Page number positioned at top right.

\pagebreak
Normal body text. Page number positioned at top right again.
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Book layout: bottom external page number

You can use the titlesec package to easily define page styles:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}   
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newpagestyle{mystyle}{\setfoot[\thepage][][]{}{}{\thepage}}
\pagestyle{mystyle}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}

Another option would be to use the fancyhdr package:

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

\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt}
\fancyfoot[RO, LE]{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Page numbering, book class

The letters in square brackets tell you, which position in the header or footer the contents of the curly brackets will be positioned in. L, R, C are left, right, and center, O and E are odd and even. So \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} will print the current page number cnetered in the footer. It might be useful to have a look at the documentation.

After your edit, I’d recommend you clear all headers and footers in the pagestyle fancy with \fancyhf{} and redefine the pagestyle plain that is used by the \chapter-command with \fancypagestyle:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}%clear all headers and footers
\fancyhead[LE]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\thepage}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}%clear all headers and footers
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%header rule invisible
}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Stuff}
\lipsum
\section{More stuff}
\lipsum
\chapter{Different stuff}
\lipsum
\section{Different stuff in a section}
\lipsum
\end{document}