I'm writing something with the article class, and I'd like to have the table of contents pages numbered with roman numerals, and in addition and most importantly: to have the arabic numbers reset after the table of contents.
That's because I'm printing the document as I write, and the TOC will be ready only after the work is finish (and I don't want to change the page numbers). As it's a somewhat big article (~70 pages maybe) should I switch to a book class instead?
This would be automatic in book class
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
...
In other classes you could just borrow the definitions from book.cls
\makeatletter
\newif\if@mainmatter \@mainmattertrue
\newcommand\frontmatter{%
\cleardoublepage
\@mainmatterfalse
\pagenumbering{roman}}
\newcommand\mainmatter{%
\cleardoublepage
\@mainmattertrue
\pagenumbering{arabic}}
\makeatother
as may be seen from the above definitions, essentially all you need if you don't want to define commands is \pagenumbering{roman} at the start and \pagenumbering{arabic} at the point that you want to switch.
\pagenumberimg is defined by \def\pagenumbering#1{% \global\c@page \@ne \gdef\thepage{\csname @#1\endcsname \c@page}} so it first resets the page counter to 1 then redefines \thepage to use the specified format roman or arabic or whatever.
Commented
May 29, 2012 at 15:27
\pagerefcommand..tocfile during a compilation and at the next run it reads the "old" file. If the TOC grows one page, the page numbers will be incorrect after that run, but will be correct at the next. Just give it a try adding a number of mock sections.