I am writing an important document which has ended up being 13 pages.
For superstitious reasons, I want the page number on the last page to show up as "12+1". In other words, I want the page numbers to be:
1, 2, …, 11, 12, 12+1.
How do I do this?
[Tex/LaTex] I want page 13 to show up as 12+1
numberingtriskaidekaphobia
Related Solutions
The package zref-totpages can deliver the total number of pages and with expl3 we have a powerful number crunching system.
\documentclass[12pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{zref-totpages}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\percentage}{}
{
\int_compare:nTF { \ztotpages > 0 }
{
\fp_to_decimal:n { round( 100 * \value{page} / \ztotpages , 2 ) }
}
{ -- }
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\cfoot{\LARGE\textcolor{blue}{\percentage\% -- Page \thepage\ of \ztotpages}}
\ifoot{}
\ofoot{}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}
In virtually all document page numbering systems I'm familiar with that use roman numerals for the front matter and arabic numerals for the main matter (starting with the first "real" chapter header), the arabic numbers start at 1 after the switch. LaTeX provides an easy command to switch the page numbering system and restart page numbering at 1:
\pagenumbering{<numbering system>}
Here <numbering system> may be arabic, roman, Roman, alph, and Alph. (I trust you can figure out what the "numbers" look like in each of these systems.) In your case, in order to switch to arabic numerals and restart page numbering at 1, you should type
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Do keep using the report document class.
An outline of your document, starting with \begin{document}, thus might be:
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman} % NOT "\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}} \setcounter{page}{1}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic} % NOT "\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} \setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter{...}
...
\bibliography{...}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Define a new counter format: