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My University's guidelines for thesis layout are a bit annoying: I'm required to put a page number on the title page, and I can't work how. Any ideas? I've tried \thispagestyle{plain} to no avail (although it did work for the abstract).

I've found a few identical questions on SE, and they were given answers which didn't work for them (or me). The structure of the code is below, all I removed was text basically.

\documentclass{report}
\title{I want a 1 to appear at the bottom of this page [doesn't work]}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\thispagestyle{plain}
I want a 2 to appear at the bottom of this page [works fine]
\end{abstract}
I want a 3 to appear at the bottom of this page [works fine]
\end{document}
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Set the empty page style - typically called when you issue \maketitle - to be equivalent to the plain page style:

\documentclass{report}
\title{I want a 1 to appear at the bottom of this page [works fine]}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\makeatletter
\let\ps@empty\ps@plain % 'empty' page style = 'plain' page style
\maketitle
\endgroup

\begin{abstract}
\thispagestyle{plain}
I want a 2 to appear at the bottom of this page [works fine]
\end{abstract}
I want a 3 to appear at the bottom of this page [works fine]
\end{document}

The scoping \begingroup...\endgroup allows the changes to be temporary, while \makeatletter is required for using @ in macros.

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