Forcing page number to start from the title page

Question

My code is the following:

    \documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}

\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{setspace}  
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[font=bf, labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{endnotes}

    \begin{document}


    \title{some title}
    \singlespace{\author{author stuff}}

    \maketitle


    \newpage
    \begin{abstract}
      abstract stuff
    \end{abstract}

    \newpage
    \doublespace

    \section*{Introduction}

    blah blah blah

    \end{document}

When I compile this, page 1 starts on the third page (i.e., on the page where the section Introduction starts). However, I want page 1 to begin from the title page, then abstract page would be page 2, and introduction page would be page 3 and so on. How can I do this?

Note that I want the page numbers to actually show. That is, on the bottom of the title page, the number 1 needs to show.

Answer 1

I have started hacking the \thispagestyle and \setcounter commands, but it wasn't a good idea, please try \addtocounter{page}{2}, I enclose an example.

\documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
% Beginning of hack...
%\let\oldthispagestyle=\thispagestyle % If we want to see a page number.
%\def\thispagestyle#1{} % If we want to see a page number.
%\let\oldsetcounter=\setcounter
%\def\setcounter#1#2{}
% End of hack...
\singlespacing
\title{My title}
\author{Author}
\maketitle
\newpage
\begin{abstract}
  Abstract stuff.
\end{abstract}
\newpage
\doublespacing
\addtocounter{page}{2}
% Restore commands...
%\let\thispagestyle=\oldthispagestyle % If we want to see a page number.
%\let\setcounter=\oldsetcounter
% End of restoring commands...
\section*{Introduction}
My first page.
\newpage
Another text.
\end{document}

Answer 2

The titlepage environment in the article class resets the page number to 1 both at the beginning and at the end; when the titlepage option is specified, abstract uses the titlepage environment internally. Since you want continuous numbering, the remedy is to redefine titlepage in order to remove the page number resetting.

\documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}

\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{setspace}  
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[font=bf, labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{endnotes}

\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{titlepage}
 {%
  \if@twocolumn
    \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
  \else
    \@restonecolfalse\newpage
  \fi
  \thispagestyle{empty}%
 }
 {%
  \if@restonecol
    \twocolumn
  \else
    \newpage
  \fi
 }
\makeatother

\begin{document}


\title{some title}
\author{author stuff}

\maketitle


\newpage
\begin{abstract}
  abstract stuff
\end{abstract}

\newpage
\doublespacing

\section*{Introduction}

blah blah blah

\end{document}

Note that \doublespace is wrong (not only typographically): the correct declaration is \doublespacing. Also \singlespace doesn't take an argument (and it is wrong in the same way); until you don't issue \doublespacing, \singlespacing is implied.

It's easy to show the page numbers also in the title page and in the abstract page:

\documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}

\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{setspace}  
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[font=bf, labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{endnotes}

\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{titlepage}
 {%
  \if@twocolumn
    \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
  \else
    \@restonecolfalse\newpage
  \fi
  \thispagestyle{plain}%
 }
 {%
  \if@restonecol
    \twocolumn
  \else
    \newpage
  \fi
 }
\makeatother

\begin{document}


\title{some title}
\author{author stuff}

\maketitle


\newpage
\begin{abstract}
  abstract stuff
\end{abstract}
\thispagestyle{plain}

\newpage
\doublespacing

\section*{Introduction}

blah blah blah

\end{document}

Answer 3

I took your file, removed the titlepage option in \documentclass.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{setspace}  
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[font=bf, labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{endnotes}

\begin{document}


\title{some title}
\singlespace{\author{author stuff}}

\maketitle




\newpage
\begin{abstract}
  abstract stuff
\end{abstract}

\newpage
\doublespace

\section*{Introduction}

blah blah blah

\end{document}