LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ Page numbering problem Topic is solved

[drpartha]

I notice that my even pges are not numbered . Why ?
I am using the document class ::

%\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\documentclass[12pt,a5paper, twoside, openany]{book}

with \pagestyle{plain}

Strangely, all odd pages numbers are displayed correctly.

I am not using fancyheader anywhere.

Where am I going wrong ? Can someone give me a clue ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

please post a minimal working example that shows the issue when we compile it. Knowing document class and page style is not enough to guess what causes it in the other code.

Best regards,

Stefan

[drpartha]

Will create a MWE soon. Pls hangon.

[EvelynKluge]

Check if you have the "twoside" option enabled; it may affect the page numbering.

[drpartha]

YES, the documentclass I use is :: \documentclass[12pt,a5paper, twoside, openany]{book}
In any case, book class is two sided by default. I suspect, the problem comes from the fact
that this book uses lot of \include files (one for each chapter). Maybe one/or more of these files is
causing a conflict and breaking the page numbering.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It can be a margin issue. Included files are usually chapters with text and don't affect global settings.

You could create a copy of your document (copy of the whole folder), and test: comment out the included files, insert some dummy text, so you see if the issue persists even without the included files. You could post the reduced document copy here. If the issue goes away without the included files, comment in / activate them one by one and see step by step if the issue appears again.

In any case, if you don't tell us your preamble settings (header settings, margin settings) or suspect the issue in a file that you also don't post, we can hardly help.

Here, it doesn't happen, and I only did what you said:

\documentclass[12pt,a5paper, twoside, openany]{book}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}
\include{chap1}
\include{chap2}
\include{chap3}
\end{document}

Click on "Run LaTeX here" to see it.

Stefan

[drpartha]

I followed the hint given by Stefan. The problem just vanished. I suspect that I had put a \pagetstyle{empty} somehwhere in one of the pages I had \input in the top level document. Thanks to all, I can now sleep in peace.