[Tex/LaTex] Thesis style page numbering

page-numbering

I am writing a thesis report. In the report I want to start counting the page number from a specific chapter. Those would be in arabic. But before that chapter I want to number pages in roman. How would I do it?

To be specific assume following chapters are present in the thesis – Certificate, List of Contents, Acknowledgement, Abstract, Chap 1: Introduction, Chap 2: ..., Chap 3: ..., Reference, Index. I want to start counting the page from 1 from Chap 1: Introduction. But before that page numbers would be counted as roman. What do I need to do?

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at the beginning of your file, issue the command

\pagenumbering{roman}

when you want the page numbers to restart and change to arabic, issue the commands

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\pagenumbering automatically resets the counter to "1".

some document classes have shortcuts for this, but you didn't say what class you're using.

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[Tex/LaTex] Roman numeral page numbering

If you're using memoir, you can use any page contents with an empty pagestyle for your unnumbered title page, and then use the \frontmatter command to set lowercase Roman numerals as the default page numbers.

In my university's case, since I'm using hyperref and other packages, I've found it's best to let the unnumbered first page be numbered with alph format, the rest of the front matter pages use Roman numbering, and the main matter pages use Arabic numbering. This avoids the dreaded "pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored" messages.

Our unnumbered first page includes:

\pagenumbering{alph}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\thispagestyle{empty}

and \frontmatter at the end of the page.

In the main thesis file, we put \mainmatter right before we include the chapter files. Details as of 2011/08/15 at this site (particularly ttuthesis.sty and thesis-manual.tex -- thesis.tex will be updated later).

In response to comments, here's a simple example similar to what I use normally. Since I try to isolate my users from the guts of the style file, I separate out the page layout (my problem, and the graduate school's) with the page contents (their problem).

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\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}

\title{My Thesis Title}
\author{Me, The Author}

% Define the (unnumbered) title page layout here
\newcommand{\mytitlepage}{
\pagenumbering{alph}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\beforepartskip
\begin{center}
\thetitle

\theauthor
\end{center}
\afterpartskip
\newpage
}

% Define the abstract page layout (numbered ii) here
\newcommand{\abstractpage}{
\frontmatter
\setcounter{page}{2}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{center}
Abstract: \thetitle
\end{center}

\theabstract
\newpage
}

% Define the abstract page contents here
\newcommand{\theabstract}{
Abstract content goes here.
}

\begin{document}
\mytitlepage
\abstractpage
\tableofcontents*
\mainmatter
\chapter{One}
This is chapter 1.
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Arabic page numbers appearing when I want Roman

Some considerations for your code:

You don't need to repeatedly set secnumdepth. Once is sufficient, as it will hold from there onward;
\pagenumbering resets the page counter to 1, so you don't have to do it explicitly;
Most (if not all) document classes offer \listoffigures and \listoftables just like \tableofcontents, so use them. By default, the List of Figures and Tables will not show up in the ToC.
Issue \cleardoublepage (or just \clearpage if not using twoside mode) before you start with \chapter{Introduction} just like you did before \tableofcontents (using \newpage). This will flush all content up to that point and start a new page and the appropriate page numbering will follow.

Without more detail, the document structure should resemble:

% Contents %
\cleardoublepage% \clearpage
\pagenumbering{roman}
\tableofcontents

% List of Figures %
\listoffigures

% List of Tables %
\listoftables

% Introduction %
\cleardoublepage% \clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\chapter{Introduction}

Depending on whether you use hyperref or not, you may have to add some modifications to the above.

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