Book PDF section numbering format

[jjallaire]

Discussed in #1888

^{Originally posted by jpmorr August 15, 2022}
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.

[jjallaire]

It may be a pandoc limitation but its definitely something we could work around in quarto. We'll be putting extensive work into crossrefs, numbering, etc. in v1.2 so I'll target this issue for work in that release (later this fall).

[jpmorr]

Thanks. Hopefully it makes it into v1.2.

[danieltomasz]

Hi @jjallaire I struggle with this too, I found workaround using book (memoir) document class instead the default one, then i could use include-in-header for \frontmatter to be placed before \maketitle

format:
  pdf:
    documentclass: memoir
    include-in-header:
     text: |
     \frontmatter

Source: https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21325