I am completing my dissertation and my school has a rather odd request. I'm using the document class "report" so that I have chapters. The school wants the page number for the first page of each chapter to be in the center of the page and every other page number to be on the top right. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you.
You can use, e.g., fancyhdr or scrlayer-scrpage to change the default header and footer. Here an example using scrlayer-scrpage. The default of the plain page style, that is used for the pages with the chapter head, is already with centered number at there page footer. So we need to change only the default of the page header and footer for the non-plain pages:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}% automark activates running head
\clearmainofpairofpagestyles% remove the default elements of non-plain pages
\ohead{\pagemark}% page number at outer margin in the head of non-plain pages
\ihead{\headmark}% running head (repeated chapter title) at the inner margin in the head of non-plain pages
\usepackage{mwe}% for dummy text in minimal working examples
\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}
results in:
If you have to change the margins or distances between the head an the text area you can use package geometry.
For a fancyhdr solution see, e.g., Changing page number location or Removing the page number at the bottom of the page.
