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LaTeX: Title page and page numbers

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For the title page you only enter the details, LaTeX arranges them. KOMA-Script sets page numbers by itself – the title page counts but shows no number.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German) 📝 Übungsdatei (.tex)

The video

In the video you see TeXstudio under Linux. The orange frame always shows the spot in question. Under Windows and macOS TeXstudio looks exactly the same. The practice file above is the state at the start of the video – so you can follow along with each part separately.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:22 Title details
  3. 0:59 A page of its own
  4. 1:12 Page numbers
  5. 1:31 Page number on the right
  6. 1:52 Roman and Arabic
  7. 2:15 Summary

The most important points

Title details

\subject{…} subject · \title{…} · \subtitle{…} · \author{…} · \date{…} · \publishers{Kurs\\Lehrkraft} – then \maketitle. The class option titlepage turns it into a title page of its own. If the school prescribes a title page, its template applies.

The title page as a page of its own.
The title page as a page of its own.
Page 1 (title page) without a number, page 2 with the number at the bottom centre.
Page 1 (title page) without a number, page 2 with the number at the bottom centre.

Page number on the right instead of centred: \usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}, \cfoot*{}, \ofoot*{\pagemark} and \setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\normalfont} in the preamble. Usual at universities: lists in Roman numerals, the text from 1 in Arabic.

Roman and Arabic: every change with \pagenumbering starts the count again at 1.
Roman and Arabic: every change with \pagenumbering starts the count again at 1.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). You download the practice files above and work in your own editor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

The worksheet – Page 1
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The worksheet – Page 2
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The worksheet – Page 3
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Try it yourself

Task

What happens if you forget \maketitle but have entered all the title details?

Show solution

No title appears. The details only store the data; only \maketitle sets the title or title page from them.

Keep learning with a language model

My school specifies for the title page of the Facharbeit: [enter requirements]. Help me find the matching KOMA-Script title details. Explain each command briefly and let me enter the commands myself.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in TeXstudio under Linux, which checked the finished PDF after every step: are margins, font, numbers and references right, are there warnings? The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.