[Tex/LaTex] Wrong roman numbering in toc

page-numberingroman numeralstable of contents

I have two types on numbering, roman for toc tof and tables and arabic for the document.

I'm using

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}

and the code is written this way.

\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents
\providecommand\phantomsection{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}

\clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}\phantom{a}\mbox{}\clearpage

\listoffigures
\providecommand\phantomsection{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}


\clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}\phantom{a}\mbox{}\clearpage

\listoftables
\providecommand\phantomsection{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}

\clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}\phantom{a}\mbox{}\clearpage

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As you can see in the index they are not correctly numbered. The numbers on toc correspond to the last page of each section.

Best Answer

With your current settings, the \addcontentsline commands are too late in the code (once the lists have been typeset). The correct order should be something like

\clearpage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\tableofcontents

And similarly for the other lists.

Also, remove these lines:

\providecommand\phantomsection{}

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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] Roman Page Numbering for TOC in Article

This would be automatic in book class

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
...

In other classes you could just borrow the definitions from book.cls

\makeatletter

\newif\if@mainmatter \@mainmattertrue

\newcommand\frontmatter{%
    \cleardoublepage
  \@mainmatterfalse
  \pagenumbering{roman}}
\newcommand\mainmatter{%
    \cleardoublepage
  \@mainmattertrue
  \pagenumbering{arabic}}
\makeatother

as may be seen from the above definitions, essentially all you need if you don't want to define commands is \pagenumbering{roman} at the start and \pagenumbering{arabic} at the point that you want to switch.

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