Table of contents page's number doesnt match the numbering style when i use foreign language "arabic"

Question

I'm doing my master thesis in LaTex and I use the following code. I face a problem with the Table of Contents, in that its page numbering is arabic.

I tried to switch it with List of Figures , but I faced the same problem with it. I can't make any of them have roman numbers, I tried many things with no success. The numbering sequence looks like "i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,7,8", where 7-8 is the table and list pages, then the chapter pages normally "1,2,etc".

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage[width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage[innercaption]{sidecap}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[arabic,main=english]{babel}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\frontmatter
\savegeometry{Mem}
\newgeometry{top=5in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgment}
\centerline{\textsc{Acknowledgment}}
First
\clearpage
\loadgeometry{Mem}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notation}
\centerline{\textsc{Notation:}}
Note
\clearpage
\newgeometry{top=5in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
\begin{center}
\Large{\textsc{Abstract}}
\end{center}
Abs
\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Arabic Abstract}
\begin{otherlanguage}{arabic}
\begin{center}
\Large{الملخص}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large{وبنيته وبعض البنيات الجزئية فيه.}
\end{center}
\end{otherlanguage}
\clearpage
\newgeometry{top=3in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Foreword}
\begin{center}
\textsc{Foreword}
\end{center}
Fore
\loadgeometry{Mem}
Fore
\clearpage
\tableofcontents \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
\listoffigures \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\cleardoublepage
\cleardoublepage
\mainmatter
\newgeometry{top=4in}
\chapter{Preliminaries and Basic Concepts about Algebras}
blah
\bibliography{ref}
\bibliographystyle{acm}
\end{document}

Note that using \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents} like this is incorrect as it then points to the end of the list, not the start. You might want to have a look at the tocbibind package. Though this does not explain your problem — daleif, Mar 10 '21 at 09:21
Unrelated \large and friends does not take any arguments, so after \large{text} the text size is still \large — daleif, Mar 10 '21 at 09:24
It seems to be related to using arabic, though I have no solution — daleif, Mar 10 '21 at 09:29
Thanks a lot. I tried to delete the arabic paragraph, and it worked! Can it work while arabic is in use? — Jemi neu, Mar 10 '21 at 09:54

Davislor · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-10T14:50:36.973

If You Can Switch to a Modern Engine

If you can upgrade to LuaLaTeX, switching to Unicode will cut the Gordian knot of a lot of hacks. It appears to solve this bug.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage[width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}
\usepackage[innercaption]{sidecap}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[bidi=basic, layout=sectioning.tabular, english]{babel}
\babelprovide[import=ar]{arabic}
\defaultfontfeatures{ Scale=MatchLowercase,
                      Ligatures=TeX }
\babelfont{rm}
          [Ligatures=Common, Scale=1.0]{Libertinus Serif}
\babelfont[arabic]{rm}
          {Amiri}
\babelfont{sf}
          [Ligatures=Common]{Libertinus Sans}
\babelfont{tt}
          {Libertinus Mono}
\babelfont[arabic]{tt}
          {ALM Fixed}
\setmathfont{Libertinus Math}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\frontmatter
\savegeometry{Mem}
\newgeometry{top=5in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgment}
\centerline{\textsc{Acknowledgment}}
First
\clearpage
\loadgeometry{Mem}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notation}
\centerline{\textsc{Notation:}}
Note
\clearpage
\newgeometry{top=5in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
\begin{center}
\Large{\textsc{Abstract}}
\end{center}
Abs
\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Arabic Abstract}
\begin{otherlanguage}{arabic}
\begin{center}
\Large{الملخص}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large{وبنيته وبعض البنيات الجزئية فيه.}
\end{center}
\end{otherlanguage}
\clearpage
\newgeometry{top=3in}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Foreword}
\begin{center}
\textsc{Foreword}
\end{center}
Fore
\loadgeometry{Mem}
Fore
\clearpage
\tableofcontents \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
\listoffigures \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\cleardoublepage
\cleardoublepage
\mainmatter
\newgeometry{top=4in}
\chapter{Preliminaries and Basic Concepts about Algebras}
blah
\bibliography{ref}
\bibliographystyle{acm}
\end{document}

Sticking with PDFTeX

The cause of this bug seems to be arabicore.sty (which is called from arabic.sty when you switch to Arabic in babel) redefining the plain page style in a way that does not respect \pagenumbering. The following redefinition in the preamble made your original MWE work for me:

\makeatletter
\def\ps@plain{\let\@mkboth\@gobbletwo
     \let\@oddhead\@empty\def\@oddfoot{\reset@font\hfil\if@rlmain
     \I{\thepage}\else\textLR{\thepage}\fi
     \hfil}\let\@evenhead\@empty\let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot}
\makeatother

Table of contents page's number doesnt match the numbering style when i use foreign language "arabic"

1 Answers1

If You Can Switch to a Modern Engine

Sticking with PDFTeX

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