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• Page numbering

Document page numbers can be typeset using a particular style , such as using Arabic or Roman numerals, and typeset at a particular page location —usually within headers or footers. This article shows how the style and location of page numbers can be changed:

• the style of page numbers can be changed by the \pagenumbering command;
• the location of page numbers can be changed using the fancyhdr package .
• 1.1 Example to demonstrate page number styles
• 2 Book class: using two styles of page number
• 3 Article class: using two styles of page number
• 4 Customizing page numbers with the fancyhdr package

Setting the style of page numbers

The style of page numbers can be changed using the command

where ⟨style⟩ is one of

• arabic : use Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, ...)
• alph : use lowercase letters (a, b, c, ...)
• Alph : use uppercase letters (A, B, C, ...)
• roman : use lowercase roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)
• Roman : use uppercase roman numerals (I, II, III, ...)

Example to demonstrate page number styles

The following example typesets a table of contents followed by 5 pages, each of which demonstrates one of the ⟨style⟩ options for page numbers. Internally, LaTeX uses a so-called counter to record the current page number. A counter is the name of a LaTeX variable used to store an integer value—see the Overleaf Counters article for more detail and examples.

 Open this example in Overleaf

The next graphic shows the table of contents produced by this document. Note how the \pagenumbering command has reset the starting page number to the initial value for each style: i for the roman style, A for the Alph style, I for the Roman style and so forth:

Here are two sample pages produced by this example; the first image shows page numbers as uppercase Roman numbers, the second demonstrates page numbers as uppercase letters:

Book class: using two styles of page number

The first few pages of a book , which include the copyright page, title or half-title page, any Foreword or Preface and table of contents, are collectively called the preliminary pages, or prelims for short—another term for those pages is front matter . Traditionally, prelim pages are numbered using lowercase Roman numerals with the main (body) pages being numbered using Arabic numerals. The book document class contains commands to assist with this, as the following example demonstrates.

The table of contents produced by this example demonstrates the use of Roman numerals for the front matter and Arabic numerals for the main (body) matter:

The commands that control the page numbering are:

• \frontmatter : Pages after this command and before the command \mainmatter , will be numbered with lowercase Roman numerals.
• \mainmatter : This will restart the page counter and change the style to Arabic numbers.

Article class: using two styles of page number

As noted above, the current page number is stored in a LaTeX counter variable which is called page . The value stored in page , or any other counter variable, can be set to a specific value using the \setcounter command:

where the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩ is set to the value ⟨intval⟩ . For example, to set the page counter to 3 you would write

Other commands to change counter variables include \addtocounter and \stepcounter :

• \addtocounter{⟨countvar⟩}{⟨increment⟩} adds an amount ⟨increment⟩ to the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩ . Note : ⟨increment⟩ can be positive, to increase the counter value, or negative to decrease it.
• \steptocounter{⟨countvar⟩} adds 1 to the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩

This hypothetical example modifies the page counter to plan a table of contents, including sections that haven't been written and whose page count is estimated. It also uses \pagenumbering{roman} and \pagenumbering{Arabic} to set the stye of page numbers.

 Open this example in Overleaf.

This example produces the following table of contents, showing the results of altering the value of the page counter:

Customizing page numbers with the fancyhdr package

The fancyhdr package can be used to customize the location and format of page numbers; for example, placing them at specific positions within the header or footer. The Overleaf article Headers and footers explores this in detail, with many examples we won't reproduce here.

Here we'll give one example of writing the current page number in the context of the total page count, such as Page X of Y where Y is the total number of document pages obtained using the lastpage package .

The following image shows one of the pages produced by this example—note Page 3 of 6 on the right-hand side of the footer:

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Learn how to change page numbering in latex.

By default, in LaTeX pages are numbered using Arabic numbers, which are the usual numbers we mostly use. However, we can customize the page numbering of our document . For example, it is conventional to number the pages of a book before the first page of the main text (the preamble, table of contents, etc.) using lowercase roman numbers . Sometimes appendices are also numbered with their own system.

In this tutorial, we are going to explore some of the different options that we have inside LaTeX to change the page numbering system .

1. Customize page numbering style

The easiest way to do so is using the \pagenumbering command in the preamble of our document . This command lets us set a page numbering style, and the arguments that can be passed to it are the following:

• arabic to use arabic numerals (default option),
• roman to use lowercase roman numerals,
• Roman to use uppercase roman numerals,
• alph to use lowercase letters and
• Alph to use uppercase letters.

Check the following illustrative example that changes the page numbering style to Roman :

produces a document whose table of contents is the one shown below; as you can see, the numbering of the pages, in this case, is done with roman numerals .

2. Different page numbering styles in the same document (Roman and Arabic)

The numbering system used in the previous example is rather unusual. But as was mentioned in the introduction, sometimes lowercase roman numerals are actually used in books, to number the pages before the first chapter (that is, before the main contents of the book). Since this kind of structure is very common, LaTeX has commands already implemented that let you easily produce it: inside the book class, when you use the \frontmatter command, the roman numbering will start, until you use the \mainmatter command when it will be substituted with the usual Arabic numbering .

Here is an example of how you could use these commands when producing a book:

The table of contents of this book is shown in the following image. In the example, \lipsum simply generates dummy text, to fill the different sections .

Observe that the numbering in the table of contents is the one that is found in most edited and printed books.

3. More control over page numbering

One may want more fine-grained control over the page numbering, instead of just this predefi ned system. This can be accomplished simply using the \pagenumbering command inside the document . Once it is inserted, the following page will start with the new numbering system. However, the counter that determines the page number will not be reset , and therefore if you were at page 5 and the next one starts with the lower case roman numbering system, its number will be vi.

To prevent this behavior, we have the \setcounter command , which accepts two mandatory arguments:

• the first determines the counter whose value we want to change (in this case, page, which is the counter that determines the page number) and
• the second, the value to which we want to set it.

So for example, we can accomplish fancy changes of page numbering as in the following example:

The table of contents produced in this case is shown below. Observe how the page numbering is affected when we use the \pagenumbering and \setcounter commands .

4. Add text to page numbering

For example, here is a very simple use of this package to print at the foot of our page the page number preceded by the word “Page” :

Compiling this code yields the following output:

Now let’s dissect what have we done in this example.

• The package fancyhdr provides various default page layouts, and we can set them with \pagestyle .
• Here we select the fancy style, and empty both the default foot and head passing no argument to \fancyhf.
• Then, we change how the centre of the foot looks with \cfoot .

Note the use of the macro \thepage , which returns the page we are in.

• As you may guess, the analogous commands \rfoot and \lfoot are provided to customize the right and left footers, and also the commands \rhead, \chead, and \lhead let you customize the head of the document.

You can make the page number appear wherever you want , and also other elements of the page such as the chapter or section name, the name of the author, and more; you can explore the fancyhdr documentation for further details.

Finally, you can also opt to use no page number at all. For this purpose, you can use \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble, and no elements will appear in your page layout.

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In this post I tell you

• How to start the page numbering from other number, different of 1
• How to mix the numbering style and the page numbering

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Page Numbering

Do you remember that in this post I tell you how to customize the style of the numbering in the page, now you can use

Where n is the desired starting page number

• If we put this instruction in the preamble the starting page of the document is going to be n

But we can put this instruction on the body of our document and have different enumerations inside the document

Mixing Styles

What if I want to have multiple styles of numbering in my document, we first need to put the style and then the number, it is

• You can check the style here

Check this code by yourself :)

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18.2 \pagenumbering ¶

Specifies the style of page numbers, and resets the page number. The numbering style is reflected on the page, and also in the table of contents and other page references. This declaration has global scope so its effect is not stopped by an end of group such as a closing brace or an end of environment.

By default, LaTeX numbers pages starting at 1, using Arabic numerals.

The argument number-style is one of the following (see also \alph \Alph \arabic \roman \Roman \fnsymbol : Printing counters ).

Arabic numerals: 1, 2, …

lowercase Roman numerals: i, ii, …

uppercase Roman numerals: I, II, …

lowercase letters: a, b, … If you have more than 26 pages then you get ‘ LaTeX Error: Counter too large ’.

uppercase letters: A, B, … If you have more than 26 pages then you get ‘ LaTeX Error: Counter too large ’.

no page number is output, though the number is still reset. References to that page also are blank.

This setting does not work with the popular package hyperref , so to omit page numbers you may want to instead use \pagestyle{empty} or \thispagestyle{empty} .

If you want to typeset the page number in some other way, or change where the page number appears on the page, see  \pagestyle (in short: use the fancyhdr package). The list above of LaTeX’s built-in numbering styles cannot be extended.

Traditionally, if a document has front matter—preface, table of contents, etc.—then it is numbered with lowercase Roman numerals. The main matter of a document uses arabic. LaTeX implements this, by providing explicit commands for the different parts (see \frontmatter , \mainmatter , \backmatter ).

As an explicit example, before the ‘ Main ’ section the pages are numbered ‘ a ’, etc. Starting on the page containing the \pagenumbering call in that section, the pages are numbered ‘ 1 ’, etc.

If you want to change the value of the page number, then you manipulate the page counter (see Counters ).

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• Page numbering

Document page numbers can be typeset using a particular style , such as using Arabic or Roman numerals, and typeset at a particular page location —usually within headers or footers. This article shows how the style and location of page numbers can be changed:

• the style of page numbers can be changed by the \pagenumbering command;
• the location of page numbers can be changed using the fancyhdr package .
• 1.1 Example to demonstrate page number styles
• 2 Book class: using two styles of page number
• 3 Article class: using two styles of page number
• 4 Customizing page numbers with the fancyhdr package

Setting the style of page numbers

The style of page numbers can be changed using the command

where ⟨style⟩ is one of

• arabic : use Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, ...)
• alph : use lowercase letters (a, b, c, ...)
• Alph : use uppercase letters (A, B, C, ...)
• roman : use lowercase roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)
• Roman : use uppercase roman numerals (I, II, III, ...)

Example to demonstrate page number styles

The following example typesets a table of contents followed by 5 pages, each of which demonstrates one of the ⟨style⟩ options for page numbers. Internally, LaTeX uses a so-called counter to record the current page number. A counter is the name of a LaTeX variable used to store an integer value—see the Overleaf Counters article for more detail and examples.

 Open this example in Overleaf

The next graphic shows the table of contents produced by this document. Note how the \pagenumbering command has reset the starting page number to the initial value for each style: i for the roman style, A for the Alph style, I for the Roman style and so forth:

Here are two sample pages produced by this example; the first image shows page numbers as uppercase Roman numbers, the second demonstrates page numbers as uppercase letters:

Book class: using two styles of page number

The first few pages of a book , which include the copyright page, title or half-title page, any Foreword or Preface and table of contents, are collectively called the preliminary pages, or prelims for short—another term for those pages is front matter . Traditionally, prelim pages are numbered using lowercase Roman numerals with the main (body) pages being numbered using Arabic numerals. The book document class contains commands to assist with this, as the following example demonstrates.

The table of contents produced by this example demonstrates the use of Roman numerals for the front matter and Arabic numerals for the main (body) matter:

The commands that control the page numbering are:

• \frontmatter : Pages after this command and before the command \mainmatter , will be numbered with lowercase Roman numerals.
• \mainmatter : This will restart the page counter and change the style to Arabic numbers.

Article class: using two styles of page number

As noted above, the current page number is stored in a LaTeX counter variable which is called page . The value stored in page , or any other counter variable, can be set to a specific value using the \setcounter command:

where the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩ is set to the value ⟨intval⟩ . For example, to set the page counter to 3 you would write

Other commands to change counter variables include \addtocounter and \stepcounter :

• \addtocounter{⟨countvar⟩}{⟨increment⟩} adds an amount ⟨increment⟩ to the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩ . Note : ⟨increment⟩ can be positive, to increase the counter value, or negative to decrease it.
• \steptocounter{⟨countvar⟩} adds 1 to the counter variable ⟨countvar⟩

This hypothetical example modifies the page counter to plan a table of contents, including sections that haven't been written and whose page count is estimated. It also uses \pagenumbering{roman} and \pagenumbering{Arabic} to set the stye of page numbers.

 Open this example in Overleaf.

This example produces the following table of contents, showing the results of altering the value of the page counter:

Customizing page numbers with the fancyhdr package

The fancyhdr package can be used to customize the location and format of page numbers; for example, placing them at specific positions within the header or footer. The Overleaf article Headers and footers explores this in detail, with many examples we won't reproduce here.

Here we'll give one example of writing the current page number in the context of the total page count, such as Page X of Y where Y is the total number of document pages obtained using the lastpage package .

The following image shows one of the pages produced by this example—note Page 3 of 6 on the right-hand side of the footer:

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