How to have roman pagenumbering, then arabic pagenumbering, without resetting the page number?

Question

First two pages need not have page numbers. So I added \thispagestyle{empty} and it worked.

Third page needs to have iii, not i, as the page number. I tried \pagenumbering{roman}, but it gives i, instead of iii.

Another stackexchange post (How to have roman numerals at the beginning of the document?) is for those who want to reset the page number. But I shouldn't reset. How can I do this?

Answer 1

(The title and body of the posting are about two different things. I've chosen to answer the question raised by the body of the posting.)

You need to place \pagenumbering{roman} immediately after \begin{document}. E.g.,

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} % filler text
\begin{document}

\pagenumbering{roman}

\thispagestyle{empty} % don't show page number (i)
\lipsum[1]            % stuff on page `i' / 
\clearpage

\thispagestyle{empty} % don't show page number (ii) 
\lipsum[2]            % stuff on page `ii' 
\clearpage            

\lipsum[3]            % stuff on page `iii' // page number IS shown
\clearpage

bla bla bla           % rest of document

\end{document}

Answer 2

It seems that you want a book, were as usual, the main matter pages have arabic numbers while front pages have roman numbers, except the page title, that obviously do not need any numeration.

If this is true, well... then just make a book with the scrbook class, add a front matter with a tittle, and finally a main matter with chapters o whatever, but without messing with page counters:

\documentclass[article]{scrbook}% or \documentclass{book} 
% \usepackage{clrdblpg} % for book only 
\title{foo}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\maketitle       % Title page (i) and blank page (ii)
\tableofcontents % page iii and blank page (iv)
\mainmatter
\chapter{bar} % page 1 and blank page (2)
\chapter{baz} % page 3
\end{document}

With the standard book class the blank pages have the same numeration, but numbers are not suppressed in blank pages. Using \usepackage{clrdblpg} the result will be the same at this respect.