Problem:
Start page numbers from chapter one and also reflect this in the TOC.
Currently the code for TOC is:
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of contents}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\tableofcontents
I would appreciate if I can be pointed in the right direction. So far I have understood that you can use \chapter* in order not to include a chapter in the TOC.
Questions:
1) How would you force Latex to start numbering from chapter 1 and forward?
2) How can you start page numbering from the first chapter?
Best Answer
First of all, you can change the page counter at any point to the number you want like this:
following pages will continue from there.
As to starting the numbers from chapter 1, a good practice is to have alphabetical or roman numbering for things before the main text (also called frontmatter; such as table of contents, list of tables and etc.) and switch to normal numbering at the beginning of the main chapters (also called mainmatter). Numbering style can be set with the following command which also resets the page counter to 1:
style can be any of these:
Sample code:
In the book documents you can also use these commands to achieve the same thing:
Source: https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_numbering