[Tex/LaTex] Roman numerals in frontmatter are skipping some numbers

front-matterheader-footerpage-numbering

I have the following document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titling, graphicx}
\title{Title goes here}
\author{Authors go here}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\include{title}

\pagenumbering{Roman}
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\mbox{}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Introduction}

\end{document}

What I expect from this is to have my title page inserted at the front, then a black page with no numbering, and then the table of contents starting at number I, and the page containing the Introduction section being number 1, however the table of contents is actually starting at number II. I've cross-referenced this code with that of two other documents I've written and I'm not entirely sure why it's not working as expected.

Best Answer

\thispagestyle{empty} will only hide the page number, but not cause the next page to be numbered with I ( or i, or 1 ...). Put \pagenumbering{Roman} immediately before \tableofcontents.

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[Tex/LaTex] Finding the physical page number of a particular logical page

A) The get the "physical" number of a page of a PDF document, there are different possibilities, for example:

manual counting (of course; might be cumbersome as well as prone to errors)
using Adobe Reader to show also the physical page number: "For the logical page numbers display of the pdf file use logical page numbers together with hyperref! - In Adobe Reader X enable: Edit > Preferences (Ctrl+k) > Page Display > Page Content and Information > Use logical page numbers. - Use the hyperref package with option plainpages=false . The display will be e.g. 7 (7 of 9), or, in case of Roman instead of arabic numbers, VII (7 of 9), and when different page numbers are used [...] e.g. arabic after 10 Roman pages: 17 (27 of 30). Please try this with the compiled pageslts-example file!" (page 4 of pageslts manual)

using the pageslts package to print the physical page number (\theCurrentPage) in the footer:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pageslts}

\makeatletter
  \renewcommand{\@evenfoot}{%
    \hspace*{\fill}%
    Page \thepage\ (\theCurrentPage\ of \lastpageref{LastPages})%
    \hspace*{\fill}%
   }
  \renewcommand{\@oddfoot}{\@evenfoot}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
Test
\newpage
More test text.
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Now look at the first number in the parentheses in the footer!

\end{document}

This will need at least two compiler runs. When you have determined the page numbers you are looking for, you can just remove the code between \makeatletter and \makeatother and recompile.

B) "I need to fetch some part from a pdf file". For this you do not necessarily need to know the physical page numbers. For example you could use the selectp package. For example

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{selectp}
\outputonly{1,0,1}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
Test
\newpage
More test text.
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Still more text.

\end{document}

will allow only pages i (1; 1 of 3) and 1 (3 of 3) to be output. The order is not random but must be the order that the pages are produced; normally this means the numbers must always increase.

With roman numbers: 1-3, 1-3 prints the pages i-iii, 1-3

and 0, 1-3 prints the pages 1-3.

It needs a complete compiled file before use! (And you must translate e.g. i to 1, but that should not be an issue.)

[Tex/LaTex] Roman numerals for table of contents, arabic for main text in footer

You can also change the footer inside the document with \rfoot. The label for the last page number is more complicate, because \label after the last page would not write anything in the .aux file. For example, package lastpage provides a label LastPage that can be used with \pageref.

Full example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}

\newcommand*{\Title}{Title}
\newcommand*{\AuthorName}{John Doe}
\title{\Title}
\date{}
\author{\AuthorName}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{\AuthorName}
\chead{Class}
\rhead{\Title}

\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{Page\ \thepage\ of\ \pageref{lastromanpage}}

\begin{document}

\maketitle\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage

\pagenumbering{roman}
\tableofcontents
\label{lastromanpage}
\clearpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\rfoot{Page\ \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
\section{First section}
\newpage
\section{Last section}

\end{document}

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