[Tex/LaTex] Publishing standard for landscape page number position

header-footerlandscapepage-numbering

I realize there are a couple of threads on this matter, but my question is a little different. My university thesis office returned my dissertation with formatting corrections today. One of the things they want me to do is change the orientation of page number on landscape pages. For now, my page numbers are all in portrait mode, even on landscape pages.

So what is the publishing standard for this? I ask this because I am not seeing any elegant solutions to this problem. One hack that has worked for me is first setting the pagestyle on a landscape page to empty and then using \thepage command after the table, figure or text on this page. This also requires doing a \centering{\thepage}.

Please enlighten me.

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I am not a publisher, but i took a look through a series of scientific publications in my private library. Til yet i have not found an example where the orientation of headers and footers (hence especially page numbering) changed on landscape pages. I think there is a simple reason: consistency; meaning that you want to find certain information, which is transfered to headers and footers like chapter, section or page numbers, in the same spot on every page.

Regarding your hack: The \centering belongs into the group: {\centering\thepage}. And Putting \hfill before of the pagenumber ensures that you have a uniform style whenever you apply your hack.

You may also try out a systematic (non-hack) solution presented in this post: How to translate and rotate the heading of landscaped pages?

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Faced the same problem on the weekend then switched to koma-class -> problems with header, footer and the numbers were solved. But bit difficult at the beginning, so here is a small example. Hope it will help to switch to koma ;)

\documentclass[     12pt,                   %fontsize
                    paper=a4,               %papersize
                    pagesize,               %area
                    DIV=calc,               %relation colls and rows see koma manual
                    liststotocnumbered,     %numbered toc (best solution report sucks over here
                    headsepline,            %header with line
                    footsepline]            %foot with line
                    {scrreprt}              %equals to report

%pagemargins
\usepackage[left=1.5cm,right=1.5cm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm,includeheadfoot]{geometry}


%Chapter caption is somewhere in the center of the page, so move the shit ;)
\renewcommand*\chapterheadstartvskip{\vspace*{-1cm}}

%If you have a new chapter, the pagestyle will be plain (only pagenumber) according to koma
%To use ur setting redefine the chaperstyle
\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{scrheadings} 

%Settings for head and foot
\usepackage{scrpage2} 
\clearscrheadfoot
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\ihead{top left}
\chead{top center}
\ohead{top right}       
\ifoot{bottom left} 
\cfoot{bottom center}
\ofoot{bottom right}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\clearpage 
\chapter{First chap}
\section{First sec}
some blank text page is still in portrait

%Save area all setting in myvalues
\storeareas\myvalues

%Change pagestyle to landscape (will create a nee page)
\KOMAoptions{paper=landscape, DIV=20} 

some blank text in landscape

%Recover settings
\clearpage
\myvalues

some blank text page is still in portrait

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Incorrect page number position on ToC page 2 only

\pagestyle{plain} puts the page number centered in the footer. This is usually the page style for the first page of a chapter (or table of contents). The standard classes are using the page style plain as default. In your case there is probably another page style active (explicitly set or implicitly by the class). If the whole document should use page style plain put

\pagestyle{plain}

in the preamble and remove the other page style settings.

If only the table of contents should use page style plain (why?), then it can be done by a local change, e.g.:

\begingroup
  \cleardoublepage
  \pagestyle{plain}
  \tableofcontents
  \cleardoublepage
\endgroup

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