roman numerals
There seem to be several forms of Roman numerals (I'm not sure which is the most used, the most standardized).
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\Rmnum}[1]{\expandafter\@slowromancap\romannumeral #1@}
\begin{document}
\Rmnum{2}
\end{document}
But I would like to express II in the following form.
How to handle it?
If you're using memoir, you can use any page contents with an empty pagestyle for your unnumbered title page, and then use the \frontmatter command to set lowercase Roman numerals as the default page numbers.
In my university's case, since I'm using hyperref and other packages, I've found it's best to let the unnumbered first page be numbered with alph format, the rest of the front matter pages use Roman numbering, and the main matter pages use Arabic numbering. This avoids the dreaded "pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored" messages.
Our unnumbered first page includes:
\pagenumbering{alph}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\thispagestyle{empty}
and \frontmatter at the end of the page.
In the main thesis file, we put \mainmatter right before we include the chapter files. Details as of 2011/08/15 at this site (particularly ttuthesis.sty and thesis-manual.tex -- thesis.tex will be updated later).
In response to comments, here's a simple example similar to what I use normally. Since I try to isolate my users from the guts of the style file, I separate out the page layout (my problem, and the graduate school's) with the page contents (their problem).
\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}
\title{My Thesis Title}
\author{Me, The Author}
% Define the (unnumbered) title page layout here
\newcommand{\mytitlepage}{
\pagenumbering{alph}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\beforepartskip
\begin{center}
\thetitle
\theauthor
\end{center}
\afterpartskip
\newpage
}
% Define the abstract page layout (numbered ii) here
\newcommand{\abstractpage}{
\frontmatter
\setcounter{page}{2}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{center}
Abstract: \thetitle
\end{center}
\theabstract
\newpage
}
% Define the abstract page contents here
\newcommand{\theabstract}{
Abstract content goes here.
}
\begin{document}
\mytitlepage
\abstractpage
\tableofcontents*
\mainmatter
\chapter{One}
This is chapter 1.
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{libertine}
\def\uromannumeral#1{\symbol{\numexpr"216F+#1\relax}}
\def\uRomannumeral#1{\symbol{\numexpr"215F+#1\relax}}
\def\uroman#1{\uromannumeral{\the\value{#1}}}
\def\uRoman#1{\uRomannumeral{\the\value{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\uromannumeral{12} \uRomannumeral{7}
\uroman{page} \uRoman{page}
\def\theenumi{\uRoman{enumi}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item foo
\item foo
\item foo
\item foo
\item foo
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
Best Answer
This is a minimal solution, as the text in the image indicates. To have a general command, some more work is needed---"general" meaning for numbers <= 35.
Remark. The command
\rnumis there in case some development follows. Otherwise, one can simply writeIinstead ofrnum{1}and so on.The code