### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/1888

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<sup>Originally posted by **jpmorr** August 15, 2022</sup>
Typically when I use latex for creating documents like books/reports I would set a different page number format for frontmatter and the main contents (e.g. Preface would be on page (i), List of Figures on page (ii), etc, while Chapter 1 would start on page 1).

How do you achieve this affect when using `quarto` to render to pdf? In `latex` it's simply a case of adding `\pagenumbering{roman}`or `\pagenumbering{arabic}` before each section begins? Is this a `pandoc` limitation?

I've noticed the ToC, ToF are already using roman numerals (but don't start at (i) as the cover page and cover back are numbered) but the preface then starts at 1.
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2022-08-15T12:25:14Z
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Book PDF section numbering format
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1889