Roman and arabic numbering with report

Question

I am writing a thesis using the report class. I want to have up until the introduction in Roman numberals, This is fine and I got it to work using previous questions. However, I am having trouble getting the arabic numbering to start at page 1 on the introduction. If I put \include{tex/Introduction}\pagenumbering{arabic} the introduction starts on page X while if I use \pagenumbering{arabic}\include{tex/Introduction} the introduction starts on page 2. How do I get the introduction to start on page 1?

\pagenumbering does always reset the page counter! \include will always use a new page first. Use \pagenumbering{arabic} inside the tex/Introduction file — , Jun 24 '16 at 11:56
Another way to obtain it: \pagenumbering{arabic}\addtocounterpage{-1}\include{tex/Introduction}. — Bernard, Jun 24 '16 at 12:04
using \pagenumbering inside tex/Introduction worked. Thanks. — Fungie, Jun 24 '16 at 12:24
it's rather a mystery why report is chosen in a case like this rather than book. there are very few differences, and book has the benefit of defining \frontmatter, \mainmatter, and \backmatter, which makes things like this so much simpler. — barbara beeton, Jun 24 '16 at 13:38
Report is the standard we use for thesis and there is no point changing now. — Fungie, Jun 24 '16 at 13:45
I would say this is a duplicate of How to use pagenumbering in the document? — Johannes_B, Jun 25 '16 at 23:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '16 at 12:53

I see no problem with the following:

\begin{filecontents}{fungie-intro.tex}
\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
\lipsum
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example

\begin{document}

\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents

\listoftables

\listoffigures

\cleardoublepage

\pagenumbering{arabic}

\include{fungie-intro}

\end{document}

You probably missed \cleardoublepage before \pagenumbering{arabic}.

Roman and arabic numbering with report

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