Continue page numbering of frontmatter in backmatter

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I have a document like this:

    \documentclass[a4paper, oneside]{book}
    
    \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
    \usepackage{cleveref}
    \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
    
    \begin{document}
    \frontmatter
    
    \chapter{Abstract}
     [Abstract goes here]
    
    \chapter{Introduction}
     [Introduction goes here]
    
    \tableofcontents
    
    \mainmatter
    
    
    \backmatter
    \chapter{Conclusion}
     [Conclusion goes here] 
    
    \end{document}

With this document, I have Roman page numbering for \frontmatter (containing Abstract and Introduction), and Arabic numbering after that.

What I want is to have \backmatter continue the page numbering of frontmatter. At the moment backmatter continues the page numbering of mainmatter.

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This is similar to Appendix Divider Page Roman Numbering, with the difference you want to use \backmatter.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\newcounter{savedfrontmatterpage}
\renewcommand{\mainmatter}{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \setcounter{savedfrontmatterpage}{\value{page}}%
  \@mainmattertrue
  \pagenumbering{arabic}%
}

\renewcommand\backmatter{%
  \if@openright
    \cleardoublepage
  \else
    \clearpage
  \fi
  \@mainmatterfalse
  \pagenumbering{roman}%
  \setcounter{page}{\value{savedfrontmatterpage}}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\frontmatter

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Summary}

\lipsum[1]

\mainmatter

\chapter{Title}

\lipsum

\chapter{Title}

\lipsum

\backmatter

\chapter{Back}

\lipsum

\end{document}

The value of page is saved before switching the numbering scheme, then reinstated at \backmatter.

Not that I consider this to be a good idea: readers won't be able to find where the back matter starts.

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You get three times a page 1 in the front matter: in the report class the titlepage environment which is used also by abstract resets the page number to 1.

I suggest you to use the book class with its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, with \chapter{\abstractname} for the abstract in the front matter.

However also the report class can be used, after patching the relevant commands; I show only the important parts, add the rest to suit. It's probably better to \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} for setting the page parameters and \usepackage{setspace} for the interline spacing.

Remember the \clearpage command before \pagenumbering{arabic}.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

%%% PATCHES %%%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch `titlepage` not to reset the page number
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\endtitlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}

% Patch `abstract` so that it shows the page number
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\titlepage}{\titlepage\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
%%% END PATCHES %%%

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{titlepage}
abc
\end{titlepage}
\begin{abstract}
dddd
\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents

\clearpage %%%%% <---- IMPORTANT
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{}
\chapter{A}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Italic roman page numbering in frontmatter

A simple way to make this happen is to redefine \thepage with \textit{...} command inside \frontmatter and reset to upright after \mainmatter command. See below example:

\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
%% Making italic page number in frontmatter
\def\thepage{\textit{\roman{page}}}

\chapter{Preface}
\lipsum

\mainmatter
%% Making upright page number in mainmatter
\def\thepage{\arabic{page}}

\chapter{One}
\lipsum
\end{document}

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