[Tex/LaTex] Italic roman page numbering in frontmatter

front-matteritalicmemoirpage-numbering

I'm using the memoir documentclass, and I would like to have roman page numbering, in the front matter, in italic. Does anyone know how to do it or can reference me something to read?

P.S. I am looking just for italicising the roman page numbering of the preface and not for patching multiple things (I'd like to add only what I understand, and since I am a newby, I understand just a little)

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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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regarding blank pages without running heads, this is what the ams has done to make this happen automatically:

\let\cleardouble@page\cleardoublepage
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  \fi
}

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ams style doesn't use dots in the toc, so i'll leave that part of the question for someone else.

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\documentclass[danish,12pt,a4paper,oneside,openany]{memoir}
\AtBeginDocument{\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}} 

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\frontmatter
\include{frontmatter/titlepage}
\include{frontmatter/abstract}
\tableofcontents*
\clearpage % TOC will now have the previous pagestyle setting
\pagestyle{headings}

\mainmatter
  ...
\end{document}

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