Number on all pages of table of content

Question

I have this issue with a LaTeX document: I want to have page numbers on every page of the Table of Content. In my case the ToC is displayed across two pages because of many chapters in the text, but the first page of the ToC does not show a page number (the second page does). I generate the ToC like this:

\newpage
\pagestyle{plain}
\setcounter{page}{5}
\tableofcontents

Answer 1

In your preamble, add

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{keeppage}{\let\thispagestyle=\@gobble}{}
\makeatother

And wrap the table of contents like so:

\begin{keeppage}
    \tableofcontents
\end{keeppage}

This also works for chapters, title pages, and such.