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I am working on my doctoral dissertation and I am using the template here (I added the hyperref package): http://thesis.gmu.edu/documents/GMU%20PhD%20Dissertation%20Template.zip

The problem is that the second page of the abstract is reset to zero, and the number appears in the resulting PDF page numbering as either 0 or garbled (the garbled number appears if unicode option is used in hyperref).

I tried every recommendation to force the second abstract page to continue the lowercase roman numbering, but all the proposed solutions have no effect. If anybody could show me a solution (any solution) to force the right page number on the second abstract page without changing/breaking the formatting, I would greatly appreciate.

Edit: Maybe I was not clear enough, but my question is not about hiding the numbers on the page, so the "empty line" hint in abstract does not help. The problem is in the latex internal numbering: the first abstract page is numbered viii and the second abstract page is numbered 0 (this can be verified by removing \thispagestyle{empty} in the \abstractpage and \abstractmultiplepage sections of the style file. As soon as I add the hyperref package, this wrong numbering is carried out in the pdf page numbering. What I need to do is to force somehow the latex internal numbering of the second page of the abstract to ix, so when I type ix in the "Go to page" box of the pdf reader it would send me to the second page of the abstract. I believe such a solution would be helpful for other people having problems with hyperref and abstract numbering as well, so I don't think it is a localized question.

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You have to leave an empty line: It is in the instruction of the template. \abstractpage The first page of the abstract %% Be sure to leave a line of whitespace immediately before this line!!!!! %% (If this comment segment runs together with the preceeding text, you might %% see the second page of the abstract numbered "0".) – Guido Dec 9 '12 at 6:40
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Could people voting to close please leave a comment on why you think the question should be closed? See meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/349/14 – Vivi Dec 9 '12 at 7:37
@Vivi the problem is limited to a specialized thesis class, and there is a comment in the provided template explaining how to avoid the problem (to leave an empty line). – Guido Dec 9 '12 at 10:50

closed as too localized by Guido, Thorsten, Marco Daniel, Claudio Fiandrino, Andrew Swann Dec 9 '12 at 11:10

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