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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Norbert Schöpke wrote:
> I use book style to write my diploma thesis and i have some
> auto-generated content before the text really starts.
> Specifically, I have a list of tables and a list of figures, then a
> prologue. These items are all correctly numbered in my TOC, but
> yesterday, someone told me the numbering starts with the first chapter
> and all pages beforehand are numbered roman style, i.e. i, ii, iii, iv,
> v instead of 1..5. I figured out my self how to restart page numbering
> on the first chapter page, but how can I get TeXmacs to use roman
> numbering for the first 5 pages or so?

The page number text is controlled by the page-the-page macro.
You may set

        (assign "page-the-page" (macro (number (page-nr) "roman")))

at the start of your prologue and then reset it to

        (assign "page-the-page" (macro (page-nr)))

at the beginning of the real document.