I'm working with the book document class for the first time and I noticed that the page numbering is different for the table of content and the first page of each chapter: instead of being placed on the top of the page, the number is placed on the bottom in these cases.
Why is this the case? I think it is very inconvenient to have to look for the page numbering at a different location in some cases...
So, the second question is: how can I change this? I would like to stick with the default page numbering options but have them consistent for all pages.
This is my minimal example, I am using xelatex in case that is relevant:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\author{Max}
\title{Test page numbering}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\maketitle
\lipsum
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{First chapter}
\section{A section}
\lipsum
\section{Another section}
\lipsum[1-10]
\end{document}
book
document class seeks to emulate some of these typographic conventions. If you cannot stand these conventions, you may need to ask yourself why you're using thebook
document class to begin with.plain
page style is used. You may redefine this page style in the preamble of your document, so that it places the page number in the header.\pagestyle{plain}
which will make all pages look like chapter pages --- page numbers at the bottom and no headers.