Page Layout ⇒ Roman Page Numbers for Front Matter

[ajmal88]

Hi!

Must be the dumbest question, but haven't found how to achieve it. I am normally used to MS Word, but new to LaTeX on this thing.

How do I achieve roman numbers in the footer starting from the Abstract, declaration of originality, acknowledgments etc all the way to the Introduction section. The introduction section should start with page number 1 and so on.

thanks

[Boersma]

Hi,

This can be achieved by the command

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\pagenumbering{<command>}

Probably, the following MWE is an example indeed:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
%arabic: Arabic numerals 
%roman: Lowercase roman numerals 
%Roman: Uppercase roman numerals 
%alph: Lowercase letters 
%Alph: Uppercase letters 

\section*{Preamble}
a preamble, with toc, lof, and lot, etc.
\newpage
\section*{Abstract}
an abstact
\newpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\section{Introduction}
Introduction and further is here, with normal page numbering
\end{document}

but a lot of other documentation can be found in the LaTeX manuals.

And welcome on the board, and good luck with mastering LaTeX.
Boersma

[localghost]

If you are working with the book class (or with a related one from KOMA-Script or with memoir), then try the commands \frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter. Among other things they will enable appropriate page numbering.


Thorsten

[ajmal88]

thanks !

LateX really makes it simple. Was a bit more complicated in MS Word. In love with this program.

cheers!