solved: Re: [nzlug] quick LaTeX question

[Donald Gordon]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:20:15 +1200, George Pollard <porges at porg.es> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 23:47 +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > David McNab wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm converting a bunch of docs from .doc into LaTeX and typesetting them
> > > as books for publishing.
> > > 
> > > How do I prevent \frontmatter from resetting the page count?
> > >
> > > What's happening is that the table of contents is generated, with page
> > > numbers. Then, after the \frontmatter, the page count gets reset. This
> > > is quite unprofessional in a commercially printed book.
> > 
> > Too simple - putting \tableofcontents after \frontmatter, instead of
> > before, fixed it.
> 
> Isn't front matter numbered i, ii, iii, iv, v... etc, as opposed to the
> Arabic enumeration of the main text?

Not by default (at least with ... er ... whatever class I remember not
doing this by default).  But it does reduce the number of times you
need to rerun latex/pdflatex to get the page numbers right, as the size
of the TOC doesn't affect the page numbers assigned to the rest of the
document.

donald
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