Subject: bug#31541: eintr.info - roman numeral page numbering for Preface section in PDF

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:52:55 +0300

> From: Van L <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 10:58:34 +1000
> 
> The Preface section of emacs-lisp-intro.pdf is expected to have roman numeral page numbering but the PDF produced doesn’t. The page numbering counts from page 1.
> 
> See the following texi file excerpt, see page 13 of 271 in the PDF viewer.
> 
>   #+NAME: emacs-lisp-intro.texi
>   #+BEGIN_SRC texi -n 223
>     @c >>>> Set pageno appropriately <<<<
> 
>     @c The first page of the Preface is a roman numeral; it is the first
>     @c right handed page after the Table of Contents; hence the following
>     @c setting must be for an odd negative number.
> 
>     @c iftex
>     @c global@pageno = -11
>     @c end iftex
> 
>   #+END_SRC

So what is the bug you are complaining about?  Is it that the comment
doesn't reflect the reality, or is it something else?

Thanks.