Page numbering is a totally automatic procedure
and, in general, requires none of your attention.
Normally, if you are not doing anything funny PHYZZX will
produce a document whose pages are numbered consecutively
starting from 1.
In general the first page you get will be numbered, unless
you have told PHYZZX not to do so.
The macros
FRONTPAGE,
MEMO,
letter
and
titlepage do issue such a command, and when
invoked produce a document where all pages but the
first page are numbered consecutively.
If you type
FRONTPAGE then PHYZZX will complete the previous
page (if there is any), set the current value of the page number to
1 and then tells TEX not to number this page.
Visible numbers appear at the bottom of all the pages which follow
and the first visible number is 2.
The command
Frontpage is a synonym for
FRONTPAGE.
The
letter and
MEMO macros, which
will be discussed later,
and the
titlepage macro, which is invoked when you are about
to type the title page of your latest magnum opus, all suppress
the printing of the pagenumber at the bottom of the first page.
If you wish to start a document in the middle and set the pagenumber
all you have to do is reset the counter called, of all things,
pagenumber by typing
pagenumber= number
This will make the first page TEX prints have this number.
To make sure that the printing of this number is not suppressed
you should also type
frontpagefalse.
If you wish to have PHYZZX number the pages using roman numerals
you can accomplish this by saying
pagenumber=-1
(or
pagenumber=-n if you wish to start with the roman
numeral equivalent to the number n).
If you wish no pagenumbers type
nopagenumbers
(be careful, its not easy to make them come back afterwards).
&sstarf#star;
If you want to suppress the page number on a particular page you
can type
frontpagetrue, which will make PHYZZX
think that this is the front page.
You'll sometimes have to play to make this happen where you want.