Page Layout ⇒ How to customize page numbers

[poudeln18]

Hi all,

I want to have my article print out the page numbers at the bottom of the page as "page 1, page 2..." as opposed to just "1 ,2 .."
can anyone help me on how I can do that?

Thank you in advance!!!

[localghost]

Have a look at packages like fancyhdr or titlesec. They allow customizing headers and footers of a document and let you display page numbers as desired.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[poudeln18]

Thank you so much for the information..I am looking into the package documentation to see if I can figure it out.

[poudeln18]

Ok so I went through the documentation for both the packages and both of them do not tell me how I could go about having the page numbers displayed as "page 1, page 2..." as opposed to "1, 2..."

Isnt there a simple code that I could type after I import the fancyhdr package that does the trick??

Please help.

Thanking you in advance!!

[marco_d]

Hello,

an easy way:

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\renewcommand\thepage{page~\arabic{page}}

Marco

[localghost]

[...] an easy way:

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\renewcommand\thepage{page~\arabic{page}}

[...]

But not a good idea since this command is also used in other places (for example the ToC).

Ok so I went through the documentation for both the packages and both of them do not tell me how I could go about having the page numbers displayed as "page 1, page 2..." as opposed to "1, 2..." [...]

Of course the manual gives simple examples how to manage that. They may have to be adapted to your needs. Otherwise this manual would be superfluous.

Isnt there a simple code that I could type after I import the fancyhdr package that does the trick?? [...]

It is very simple and as stated above an adapted example from the manual.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em
\parskip\medskipamount

% Page setup (fancyhdr)
\fancyhf{}
\cfoot{Page \thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

[poudeln18]

Dear. Localghost,
Thank you so incredibly much. The way I had gone through the files was to search the words Page Number..I must have missed out on the detailed explanations. Anyhow, I will try to work on it now.

Thanks again.