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The thesis of my university requires the pagination in the following way:

(1) Pages preceding the introduction (acknowledgment, table of contents, list of tables, etc.) are to be numbered with lower-case Roman numerals beginning with ii, iii, iv, etc., centered at the bottom of the page at least one double-space below the last line of text and one inch above the bottom of the page.

(2) The body of the thesis or dissertation ... Each page should be numbered at the upper right within the right margin...

How can I solve this problem, especially for the table of context, since other section, I can manually create other file?

For example, I have tried this:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\copypagestyle{chapter}{plain}
\makeevenfoot{chapter}{}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{chapter}{}{}{}
\makeevenhead{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeoddhead{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
\copypagestyle{part}{plain}
\makeevenfoot{part}{}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{part}{}{}{}
\makeevenhead{part}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeoddhead{part}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeevenfoot{headings}{}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{headings}{}{}{}
\makeevenhead{headings}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeoddhead{headings}{}{}{\thepage}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\begin{abstract}
Abstract\\
Abstract\\
Abstract\\
\end{abstract}•
\newpage

\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter{One}
blah blah
\section{A}
\section{B}
\chapter{Two}
\section{A}
\section{B}
\end{document}}

This solves the problem for i, ii, iii and 1, 2, 3. However, how can I change the positions of i, ii, iii to meet (1) that centered at the bottom?

I appreciate it if anyone can help.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. I suspect \frontmatter might be a good starting point, but your document class might not support it. Thus, a simple MWE would be useful to get answers. Feb 14, 2016 at 22:56
  • Are you sure that the first page of chapters is also supposed to have a number on the upper right? This is quite an odd format.
    – Alan Munn
    Feb 14, 2016 at 23:43

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This is quite simple to do. Basically you just need to use the plain page style for the \frontmatter and then redefine the headings pagestyle for the rest of the document. I've aliased the chapter pagestyle to be headings after the \mainmatter command. This way it will redefine the \chapter page style only after the table of contents etc. It's an odd format to have the number of the first page of a chapter be on the upper right (usually it's in the bottom centre). If you need the first pages of chapters to be at the bottom centre, just remove the \aliaspagestyle command. Since it appears you need all pages to have the same header, I've added the oneside option to the \documentclass command.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{kantlipsum} % package for dummy text (not needed)

\makepagestyle{headings}
\makeevenfoot{headings}{}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{headings}{}{}{}
\makeevenhead{headings}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeoddhead{headings}{}{}{\thepage}


\begin{document}
\pagestyle{plain}
\frontmatter
\begin{abstract}
\kant[1-2]
\end{abstract}
\newpage

\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\pagestyle{headings}
\aliaspagestyle{chapter}{headings} % remove this if chapter beginnings are different

\chapter{One}
\kant
\section{A}
\section{B}
\chapter{Two}
\kant
\section{A}
\section{B}
\end{document}

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  • @Shaoyi If this solved your problem it's helpful to "accept" the answer by clicking on the check mark icon beside the voting buttons.
    – Alan Munn
    Feb 15, 2016 at 0:12

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