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From: delgado@math.ksu.edu (Alberto Delgado)
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:12:34 GMT
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 One of our TeX users needs to generate a document with no page numbers on the 
first three pages, with the subsequent pages being numbered begining with the
page number 2.  To complicate things slightly, the page numbers are to
be on the 
top of the page.  She tried the following, but it did not do the expected --- 

\nopagenumbers
\pageno=-1
\headline={\ifnum\pageno=-1\hfill\else
            \ifnum\pageno=-2\hfill\else
            \ifnum\pageno=-3\pageno=2\hfill\else
            {\hss -- \folio\  -- \hss}\fi\fi\fi}

--- the first three pages are indeed free of page numbers, but then the
numbering 
is in roman numerals (which we understand) and goes iv, v, vi, etc.   

Can anyone explain?  Please respond via e-mail.  Thanks.

Alberto L Delgado
delgado@newton.math.ksu.edu