[Tex/LaTex] Page number position on page with table of contents

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I want to position page numbers in my document in top-right corner. I managed to do so using fancyhdr (see below).

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\hypersetup{%
    pdfborder = {0 0 0}
}
\renewcommand*{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}

Everything works fine, except page number on the page where I have table of contents is centered at the bottom of that page.

Does anyone know how to fix that?

Best Answer

I believe you need to edit the plain settings. For example, adding the following to the preamble may help

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyfoot{} % clear all footer fields
\fancyhead[RO]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[LE]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

Note that in the fancyhdr documentation it says that

Some LaTeX commands, like \chapter, use the \thispagestyle command to automatically switch to the plain page style, thus ignoring the page style currently in eﬀect. To customize even such pages you must redeﬁne the plain pagestyle.

Therefore, this includes pages like the Table of Contents.

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You get three times a page 1 in the front matter: in the report class the titlepage environment which is used also by abstract resets the page number to 1.

I suggest you to use the book class with its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, with \chapter{\abstractname} for the abstract in the front matter.

However also the report class can be used, after patching the relevant commands; I show only the important parts, add the rest to suit. It's probably better to \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} for setting the page parameters and \usepackage{setspace} for the interline spacing.

Remember the \clearpage command before \pagenumbering{arabic}.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

%%% PATCHES %%%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch `titlepage` not to reset the page number
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\endtitlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}

% Patch `abstract` so that it shows the page number
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\titlepage}{\titlepage\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
%%% END PATCHES %%%

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{titlepage}
abc
\end{titlepage}
\begin{abstract}
dddd
\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents

\clearpage %%%%% <---- IMPORTANT
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{}
\chapter{A}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Difficult with fancyhdr and table of contents

Since you're using the book class, I presume that everything in the front matter is intended to be under the plain pagestyle:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancypagestyle{main}{%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyhead[C]{\slshape\leftmark}%
  \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}%
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}%
}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}%
}

\appto\frontmatter{\pagestyle{plain}}
\appto\mainmatter{\pagestyle{main}}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

%%% fill with some mock text
\def\testsec{\section{B}\lipsum}
\def\test{\chapter{A}
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
  \testsec
}
\test
\test
\test
\test
\test
\test
\test
\test
\end{document}

However, I'd recommend against the footrule.

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