Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques

3.2. Page style 45
In many classes, the first page of a chapter, or the very first page
of the document, is switched to plain automatically. If the user wants
to change this, he or she must redefine that page style. The fancyhdr
package simplifies this task with
\fancypagestyle{plain}{definitions}
where definitions consist of \fancyhead, \fancyfoot, and/or rule redefinitions
that are to apply to the revised plain style. In fact, any existing
page style can be redefined in this way.
3.2.3 Page numbering
The declaration that specifies the style of the page numbering has the
form
\pagenumbering{num style}
The allowed values of num style are:
arabic for normal (Arabic) numerals,
roman for lower case Roman numerals,
Roman for upper case Roman numerals,
alph for lower case letters,
Alph for upper case letters.
The standard value is arabic. This declaration resets the page counter
to 1. In order to paginate the foreword of a document with Roman numerals
and the rest with Arabic numbers beginning with page 1 for chapter 1,
one must declare \pagenumbering{roman} at the start of the foreword
and then reset the page numbering with \pagenumbering{arabic} immediately
after the first \chapter command. (See Section 3.3.5 for the
preferred method.)
Pages may be numbered starting with a value different from 1 by giving
the command
\setcounter{page}{page num}
where page num is the number to appear on the current page.
Exercise 3.3: Expand your exercise text file so that it fills more than one page of
output and include the following preamble:
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{Exercises}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\begin{document}