On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 16:54 (+0100), Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 06.03.2026 um 03:44 schrieb Jim:
>> Hi,
>> suppose you are making a document where the frontmatter pages use Roman
>> numerals, and the rest uses Arabic numerals.
>> With suitable applications of lines like
>> \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=romannumerals, number=1]
>> I can make that happen, but when looking at the frontmatter section of such
>> a PDF (with your favourite PDF viewer) the viewer reports the current page
>> with Arabic page labels, rather than Roman.
>> Is there any way to get LMTX to output something like
>> /PageLabels << /Nums [ 0 << St 1 /S /r >> 5 << /St 1 /S /D >> ] >>
>> rather than
>> /PageLabels
>> <<
>> /Nums [0
>> <<
>> /St 1
>> /S /D
>> >> 5
>> <<
>> /St 1
>> /S /D
>> >>]
>> >>
>> (I don't care whether it is one line or many, I just want the initial /S /D
>> to be /S /r.)
> \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart]
> \setupuserpagenumber[number=1]
> \stopsectionblockenvironment
> \defineconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]
> \starttext
> \startfrontmatter
> \dorecurse{5}{\page[dummy]}
> \stopfrontmatter
> \startbodymatter
> \dorecurse{5}{\page[dummy]}
> \stopbodymatter
> \stoptext
Wolfgang,
thanks very much, your example does just what I want.
I have the feeling I will need to study the docs for a few new (new to me)
commands.
Jim
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