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I'm facing an interesting question about the numbering and counting of the pages. Here is how my article should look like in terms of page numberging :

Title page : count for page 1, but not numbered Abstract and so on : count for page 2+, numbered in roman II, III, etc, Main part : count start again on page 1, numbered in arabic 1, 2, 3, etc

So my MWE is working fine, it uses the titlepage environment to create a custom title. The pagenumbering commands are fine for switching the type of numerbing.

This difficult part was to actually make the titlepage count as a "page 1". I manage to do this by artificially incrementing the counter on page.

My questions :

  • Does the pagenumbering always reset the page count ?
  • Is the incrementation of the counter (relatively) safe to do ?
  • Isn't there a cleaner was to achieve the same results ?

Here is my MWE code :

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\CustomTitle}{%
    \begin{titlepage} % Start of page
    \Huge{A Title}
    \end{titlepage}
}

\begin{document}
% title
\CustomTitle%
% \addtocounter{page}{1} % <- artificially increment counter
\clearpage%
% Front matter
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\section*{a dummy abstract}
\lipsum[11]
\clearpage
\section*{a dummy executive summary}
\lipsum[4]
\clearpage
\section*{another dummy frontmatter}
\clearpage%
% Main
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[4-12]\clearpage

\section{Section 1}
\lipsum[13-23]\clearpage
\end{document}

Update 22/08/2019

Actually, there was a similar issue on Tex.SE. I'll go through the answers already provided

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    \thispagestyle{empty} should do the trick.
    – Bernard
    Aug 21, 2018 at 21:28
  • Don't use the titlepage environment. All it does is messing with page numbers and setting the pagestyle to empty. You just want the latter, so use the line Bernard gave you in the comment above.
    – Johannes_B
    Aug 22, 2018 at 6:03
  • Thanks for your comment, indeed for a simple title, the \maketitle would be enough, but I forgot to mention that my title page is slightly more complex with image and bloc of texte, etc.
    – XaWin
    Aug 22, 2018 at 6:13
  • You can have anything you want on your title page, just don't use the titlepage environment.
    – Johannes_B
    Aug 22, 2018 at 13:09
  • @Johannes_B : I've tried to renew the command \maketitle and to include all the content I previously had in the titlepage, it worked fine. Do you want to provide some answer accordingly and maybe offer some context on why it is so bad to use it ?
    – XaWin
    Aug 22, 2018 at 21:04

1 Answer 1

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Yes,\pagenumbering resets the page counter.

Here is a modified version of \CustomTitle which does what you want, if I've well understood:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\CustomTitle}{%
    \begin{titlepage}%\thispagestyle{empty} % Start of page
    \Huge{A Title}
    \end{titlepage}
\stepcounter{page}
}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
% title
\CustomTitle%

\section*{a dummy abstract}
\lipsum[11]
\clearpage
\section*{a dummy executive summary}
\lipsum[4]
\clearpage
\section*{another dummy frontmatter}
\clearpage%
% Main
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[4-12]\clearpage

\section{Section 1}
\lipsum[13-23]\clearpage

\end{document} 

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