If you wanted the Introduction to be numbered along with the "main matter" i.e. the bulk of the book, you could use:<br><br>\chapter*{Introduction}<br>\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}<br>Introduction text...<br>
<br>\chapter{First Chapter}<br>...<br><br>That way, the Introduction isn't numbered, but still shows up in the table of contents. If you wanted to start the chapter number at 2 instead of 1 (like Introduction, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, ...) insert \setcounter{chapter}{1} anywhere before the first un-starred \chapter{}. You can, of course, do whatever you want with page numbers by using \setcounter{page} and \pagenumbering{roman} or \pagenumbering{arabic}, but you generally want to minimize using these types of commands in the interest of separating content from formatting.<br>
<br>Regardless, it sounds like \setcounter{counter}{value}, \chapter*{}, and \pagenumbering{style} will fix your problem.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Robert Wilson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Silvia Roque <<a href="mailto:silviacjr@hotmail.com">silviacjr@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Hi!</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">My name is Sílvia Roque and I am writing a thesis in Mathematics, using Latex at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">But I have small problem. My both supervisors (one from physics, other from mathematics), want me to change the chapter numbers: They want me to call chapter 0 to chapter "Introduction".</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">The problem is that I am using a "\documentclass[a4paper,11pt, oneside]{book}", and it seems that on a document book, Latex allays calls to the first chapter, chapter 1.</font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Is it possible to change this? I am asking this because I already know that it is possible to change the numbering pages of the document (for example, to put roman numbering on the first chapter and Arabic numbering on the others chapters.)</font></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Sincerely yours, Sílvia</span><span><font color="#000000"> <span lang="EN-GB">Roque <span> </span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
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