[Tex/LaTex] page numbers at top right

header-footerpage-numbering

I've got a simple question, I think. But I can't seem to find the answer to it anywhere. I want page numbers at the top right of each page of my document. How do I do this?

I tried doing:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage}

\begin{document}

My text.

\end{document}

While this did result in page numbers being at the top right, I don't like the horizontal lines across the top of each page that this produces.

Best Answer

Use \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} for example to set the head rule with to zero -- it won't appear then. The same can be applied to \footrulewidth, if necessary.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage}

\begin{document}

My text.

\end{document}

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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
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[Tex/LaTex] How to display page numbering on top of the page

You can load fancyhdr. Commands for single sided documents were usually, for example (right head, left head, right foot, and so on):

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{}
\lhead{}
\rfoot{}

Although apparently the last three showed here are now obsolete.

There are other styles besides fancy which is used here, like plain, but you can make up your own style. \fancyhf{} empties the head and foot so you can fill them with whatever you want.

The new syntax has the following commands:

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}

\fancyhead is for the header, \fancyfoot is for the footer, pretty simple. The various letters are: L for the left side of the page, R for the right side, C for center, E for even pages and O for odd pages.

You can also add these commands for the lines:

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{2pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}

You can enter whatever you want in the fields above, but you have some variables at your disposal so that nothing is hard-coded:

\thepage
Page number.
\thechapter
Number of current chapter.
\thesection
Number of current section
\chaptername
Adds the word "chapter" or the corresponding word if the document is in a different language.
\leftmark and \rightmark These add the top level and next-to-top level structure number and name (though it can be modified) for the current document class. For example, in article it would be section and subsection.

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