I have managed to use roman page numbering and now want to have arabic numbering starting on the same page as chapter 1. My code so far produce arabic number 2 on the same page as chapter 1. I already use \setcounter but to no effect.
\documentclass[10 pt, a4paper, leqno, oneside] {report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{multirow}
%\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage[swedish, english]{babel}
\usepackage[tmargin=1cm]{geometry}
%\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
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% The title page %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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\input{titlepage}
\pagenumbering {roman}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% The Abstract Page %%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\chapter*{Abstract}
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% TOC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\tableofcontents{}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Chapters %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\include{chapter1} %Background
\include{chapter2} %Theory
\include{chapter3} %Results
\include{chapter4} %Analysis and conclusions
\include{chapter5} %Discussions
\end{document}
\pagenumberingcommand just after\chapter{Background}. – Johannes_B Nov 13 '15 at 15:53\cleardoublepage\pagenumbering{arabic}– egreg Nov 13 '15 at 16:08