Book PDF section numbering format

[jpmorr]

Typically when I use latex for creating documents like books/reports I would set a different page number format for frontmatter and the main contents (e.g. Preface would be on page (i), List of Figures on page (ii), etc, while Chapter 1 would start on page 1).

How do you achieve this affect when using quarto to render to pdf? In latex it's simply a case of adding \pagenumbering{roman}or \pagenumbering{arabic} before each section begins? Is this a pandoc limitation?

I've noticed the ToC, ToF are already using roman numerals (but don't start at (i) as the cover page and cover back are numbered) but the preface then starts at 1.

[eeholmes]

The Pandoc latex templates are fully customizable.

See the great-wave example in quarto_titlepages

Specifically, the before-body.tex file where I redefine how the title page is created and on line 6, tell LaTeX start the page numbers at 1. Although this is a scrbook document class and I am in the frontmatter so this is actually causing the table of contents to start at i.

[jpmorr]

@eeholmes Thanks, yes. I've just been trying out quarto_titlepages over the weekend and was figuring it may be possible to add a new preface and/or acknowledgement page using an \include{preface} in the before-body.tex. As I already have these in the qmd format and also want them to render in the HTML version, I'd prefer to use the \include hack.

I've actually just posted a question trying to figure out how to add edition and isbn on to the title page like the way you have used title, subtitle, etc.

[mcanouil]

You need to learn Pandoc template syntax for short.