I have a seven page long paper which will be assembled with other papers. I know that the first page of my paper will be page 68 in the assembled work. What can i do to tell LaTeX to start counting from 68?
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you can usually set the desired page number by \setcounter{page}{68}.
there are some commands, e.g. \chapter, that may result in an increased page number (see below); in such a case, you should set the value to one less than what you want to start with.
also, be aware that \chapter will, by definition, start on an odd-numbered page, and this may result in the page number being increased. your span starts with an even-numbered page. if that is a problem, ask for more help.
barbara beeton
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At least for scrbook when you set twoside=false, chapters may appear on even pages (which automatically removes the blank pages before chapters as well. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page) – Concerto May 06 '21 at 18:03
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1@kaka --
\thispagestyle{empty)will remove the page number on the first page, but on other pages it will also remove running heads. How those are set depends on how the page headings are defined, and not enough is known from this question to answer that reliably. – barbara beeton Nov 12 '21 at 18:11
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You can use
\setcounter{page}{68}
although if you're creating a 'chapter-like' file, then you probably want \includeonly as detailed in How to create individual chapter PDFs
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1Aah, you beat me to the answer by about 10 seconds! I'll go ahead and delete mine and upvote yours. – Mico Dec 18 '12 at 17:16
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1@Mico you're very kind :) I'll find another of your answers to give you +1 – cmhughes Dec 18 '12 at 17:16
fancyhdrpackage, as the mechanism for specifying the page number is independent – cmhughes Dec 18 '12 at 17:16