Page Layout ⇒ Page Numbering

[woltan]

Hey folks,
this is my first posting here and I am fairly new to LaTex. I hope you can solve my little problem. Actually I found a work around but I am wondering if it cannot be solved a little nicer ^^

Here we go:
I am writing an article and I would like the first pages like the TOC, LOF, Nomencalture... to be with Roman page numbers. Then, when the first section starts I would like arabic page numbers to appear instead of the Roman but continue counting where there last Roman pagenumber was. Something like: I, II, III, IV, V, 6, 7, 8, 9...

My work around looks like this:
...
\newcounter{PageDummy}
\setcounter{PageDummy}{\value{page}}
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\setcounter{page}{\value{PageDummy}}
...

My first question to the community:
Is there a nicer way of doing what I want to do?
Any help, link tipp is appreciated!!
cherio Woltan

[phi]

Apart from resetting the page counter, \pagenumbering only redefines \thepage, which you can do, too:

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\renewcommand*\thepage{\arabic{page}}