Page Styles ____________

The \documentclass command determines the size and position of the page's head and foot. The page style determines what goes in them.

Commands

• \maketitle
• \pagenumbering
• \mark
• \pagestyle
• \thispagestyle

\pagenumbering

Command:

\pagenumbering{num_style}

Specifies the style of page numbers. Possible values of num_style are:

arabic - Arabic numerals

roman - Lowercase roman numerals

Roman - Uppercase roman numerals

alph - Lowercase letters

Alph - Uppercase letters

\pagestyle

Command:

\pagestyle{option}

The \pagestyle command changes the style from the current page on throughout the remainder of your document.

The valid options are:

plain

Just a plain page number.

empty

Produces empty heads and feet no page numbers.

headings

Puts running headings on each page. The document style specifies what goes in the headings.

myheadings

You specify what is to go in the heading with the \markboth or the \markright commands.

\mark

Command:

\markboth{left head}{right head}

\markright{right head}

The \markboth and \markright commands are used in conjunction with the page style myheadings for setting either both or just the right heading. In addition to their use with the myheadings page style, you can use them to override the normal headings in the headings style, since LaTeX uses these same commands to generate those heads. You should note that a "left-hand heading" is generated by the last \markboth command before the end of the page, while a "right-hand heading" is generated by the first \markboth or \markright that comes on the page if there is one, otherwise by the last one before the page.

\thispagestyle

Command:

\thispagestyle{option}

The \thispagestyle command works in the same manner as the \pagestyle command except that it changes the style for the current page only. page only.