Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Masters/Doctoral Thesis- Page numbering, headers and footers

[aswadson]

Hey everyone,
I am writing to you regarding the thesis template MastersDoctoralThesis. Unfortunately, my school (KTH) wants the placement of the numbers to be in the bottom of the page, I tried to do it but failed could you please help me?

The first thing I tried to do was to put the \pagemark in the \ofoot in the above code but it did not work, I did the following:

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\RequirePackage[markcase=used]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\providepairofpagestyles{thesisSimple}{%
\clearpairofpagestyles%
\automark[chapter]{chapter}
\ihead{\headmark}% Inner header
\ohead*{}% Outer header
}
\ifoot{}% Inner footer
\ofoot*{\pagemark}% Outer footer

The next thing was to try to use The Fancyhdr package but failed again because I noticed that the code below prevent Fancyhdr to be used, so naturally, I tried to fix it by commenting it out (the prevention) but due to my lack of knowledge in Latex (as this is my first time using it) I failed again! I am using Overleaf, the version of the template is Version 1.5 (22/11/16). I know that this is not a problem with the template, but I really tried to fix this problem alone but unfortunately have not succeeded yet and are in desperate need for help.

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\RequirePackage[markcase=used]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\providepairofpagestyles{thesisSimple}{%
\clearpairofpagestyles%
\automark[chapter]{chapter}
\ihead{\headmark}% Inner header
\ohead[\pagemark]{\pagemark}% Outer header
}
\ifoot{}% Inner footer
\ofoot{}% Outer footer
\pagestyle{thesisSimple}
\providepairofpagestyles[thesisSimple]{thesis}{%
\automark*[section]{}%
}
\providepairofpagestyles[thesisSimple]{review}{%
\ofoot[\shorttitle/\authorname]{\shorttitle/\authorname}
\ifoot[\today]{\today}
}
\pagestyle{thesis}
\ifbool{headsepline}{\KOMAoption{headsepline}{true}}{}
\PreventPackageFromLoading[\ClassError{\classname}{Package `fancyhdr' is
incompatible\MessageBreak with this class}{The pagesyles are defined 
using package `scrlayer-scrpage', please consult the\MessageBreak 
KOMA-script documentation for details.}]{fancyhdr}


\NewDocumentCommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{}{empty}
\NewDocumentCommand{\blankpagestyle}{ m }{%
\ClassWarning{\classname}{\string\blankpagestyle\space is
obsolete,\MessageBreak use \string\setblankpagestyle \space instead}\DeclareDocumentCommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{}{#1}
}
\NewDocumentCommand{\setblankpagestyle}{ m }{\DeclareDocumentCommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{}{#1}}

\DeclareDocumentCommand\cleardoublepage{}{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
\hbox{}
\thispagestyle{\blank@p@gestyle}
\newpage
\if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi%
}

Best Regards,

Haider Aswad

[Johannes_B]

After \mainmatter, use:

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\ohead*{}
\ofoot*{\pagemark}

[aswadson]

Thank you so much it did solve the problem! How can I have it so that the number is in the center of the footer and not in the right or left of the footer?

I tried this:

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\cfoot*{\pagemark}

but it didn't work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: I tried it again and it did work Thank you so much for the fast reply

[Johannes_B]

Nice to hear that it works.
You can also have a look at the unofficial quick manual, if you like.

By the way, KTH provides own templates, the one on Overleaf seems to provide just the titlepage.

By the way, I added proper code markup in our posts above.

Off-topic: Professor Seetharaman was a visiting professor in Freiberg/Saxony a few years ago. Very interesting lectures.

[aswadson]

Yes, I tried to find a proper KTH Thesis template but I only found a Word template and some guidelines regarding the Latex Template, That is why I didn't bother with it.

I am going to use the Title page template later on. Yes, I noticed that it looks much better now.

Do you study metallurgy?

By the way, I want to Include an A3 pdf in the appendix how is that done?

[Johannes_B]

Matrials science, but i am also interested in other stuff.

Including a pdf file: New question, new topic

[aswadson]

haha I knew that I have to post a new question haha but was a bit lazy Alright I will post it Sounds nice, it is so easy to find a job for people with your background here in Sweden and with good salaries I studied Mechanical Engineering

[Nafees]

Hey! I am using the same MasterDoctrolThesis.cls format to write my thesis. This format shows the chapter name and heading of the current page in the header. I want to add Chinese specific character on each page of my thesis. The code of MasterDoctrolThesis.cls for a header is:

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\providepairofpagestyles[thesisSimple]{thesis}{%
    \automark*[section]{}%
}
\providepairofpagestyles[thesisSimple]{review}{%
    \ofoot[\shorttitle/\authorname]{\shorttitle/\authorname}
    \ifoot[\today]{\today}
}
\pagestyle{thesis}
\ifbool{headsepline}{\KOMAoption{headsepline}{true}}{}
\PreventPackageFromLoading[\ClassError{\classname}{Package `fancyhdr' is
incompatible\MessageBreak with this class}{The pagesyles are defined 
    using package `scrlayer-scrpage', please consult the\MessageBreak 
KOMA-script documentation for details.}]{fancyhdr}


\newcommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{empty}
\newcommand{\chapter@p@gestyle}{plain}
\NewDocumentCommand{\blankpagestyle}{ m }{%
    \ClassWarning{\classname}{\string\blankpagestyle\space is
    obsolete,\MessageBreak use \string\setblankpagestyle \space  instead}\renewcommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{}{#1}
}
\NewDocumentCommand{\setblankpagestyle}{ m }{\renewcommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{#1}}
\NewDocumentCommand{\setchapterpagestyle}{ m }{\renewcommand{\chapter@p@gestyle}{#1}}

\DeclareDocumentCommand\cleardoublepage{}{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
    \hbox{}
    \thispagestyle{\blank@p@gestyle}
    \newpage
    \if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi%
}

I need to add the following characters given in the picture in my header:

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and need to put just red line with the page number footer like showing in the below given picture

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For this the following code I have used, but it could not work:

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\pagestyle{fancy} % all pages will follow same fancy header and footer style except title page
\fancyhf{} % Clear header and footer
\fancyhead[C]
{\begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gkai}
        \fontsize{20}{20} \textbf{华\hspace{0.5cm}中\hspace{0.5cm}科\hspace{0.5cm}技\hspace{0.5cm}大\hspace{0.5cm}学\hspace{0.5cm}研\hspace{0.5cm}究\hspace{0.5cm}生\hspace{0.5cm}院} \end{CJK*}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.7pt} % Line at the header visible

How should I do this? Please help me out to this problem?

[vides]

Hi!

I want to know how to shorten the size of the header chapter title because it is very long and step on the page number (@MasterDoctoralThesis Template)

Thanks!

[Ijon Tichy]

@vides You should ask a new question for this. This thread is already too complex.

However, try the optional argument of \chapter.