I'm here with weird stuff again.
How can i continue numbering while changing numbering style to Arabic from Roman? For example let's assume I have total of 7 pages and I want to number the first 3 of them as : i,ii,iii; then I change back to Arabic again and continue counting as 4,5,6,7.
After \begin{document} (or in the document preamble), issue
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}% Roman page numbers
On the page where you want it to change to Arabic numbering, use
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}% Arabic page numbers
The above just modifies the page number/counter printing mechanism. In contrast, using \pagenumbering{arabic} will change the numbering to Arabic but also resets the page counter.
bookclass then you can use\frontmatterand\mainmatterto delimit the corresponding parts of your documment. The pages after the mainmatter` command will be numbered with arabic numbers. – leo May 16 '12 at 20:08