ryan@cs.purdue.EDU (Ryan Stansifer) (09/10/90)
I have been wondering about the placement of the \pagenumbering
command in book documents. The LaTeX manual tells you to put
\pagenumbering{arabic} after the first \chapter command, if you plan
on switching form roman numbering to arabic. This is, presumably, so
that TeX encounters the \newpage caused by \chapter before the
\pagenumbering and you don't get arabic numerals one page too soon.
OK. fine. Now suppose that you use \include to include your first
chapter and then decide with \includeonly not to include your first
chapter. This skips the \pagenumbering{arabic} command. The later
chapters are then typeset using roman numbering. What is the proper
use of LaTeX so that you can include (or not) your first chapter?
(You can't put \pagenumbering{arabic} in all chapters as it also
resets the page counter.)
Ryan Stansifer
ryan@cs.purdue.edu