How to set page number start??

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1997/09/01

> by chapter basis, how can I set the page number to other
> than one? The same goes for section numbers. A sample of

Put something like this in your tex-file. More of this stuff can be found in the aux-files.

\setcounter{page}{59}
\setcounter{chapter}{3}
\setcounter{section}{2}
\setcounter{subsection}{4}
\setcounter{subsubsection}{6}
\setcounter{figure}{11}
\setcounter{table}{8}

Lars Otto

How to set page number start??

much better way…

You can \include your chapters. If you place your chapters in files like chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex, etc. you can use something like

\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\include{chapter1}
\include{chapter2}
 .
 .
 .
\end{document}

which chapters you would like to (re)compile. So to recompile chapter 3, enitrely. There are just not typeset again. The information about references and pages is preserved, and can be used in the other chapters. These will have the value of the last compilation. If you only recompile part of your document, the page numbers of the other chapters may be wrong if the recompiled chapter does not contain exactly the right number of pages. So for a final run, always remove the \includeonly and recompile the entire file twice, or if you don't use separate numbering for the front-matter, such as acknowledgements and table of contents, you might have to recompile three times. It is customary to use roman numbering for the front matter. You can do this rest. In this way the length of the table of contents does not interfere with the pagenumerbing in the rest of the document. But we were tackling a different problem.

If you do this the \tableofcontents etc. will be correct and you can still compile only one chapter at a time, if you want to… So, instead of having to manually change to pagenumbering you can let LaTeX do the work for you.

To change the numbers of chapter sections etc.. You can also use

Timco Visser