Hi Pablo,

thanks for your response. Yes, I already had in mind, that this might be 
a viewer related problem, as I only opened the document in SumatraPDF 
only. With one of the solutions from the wiki I fixed the problem. I added

\definestructureconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]

to my environment file. I didn't take this into accout, as I initially 
didn't plan on using roman numbers. But right now this seems the only 
proper solution to the wrong numbering in my case. I attached an 
explanation document to show you what I mean.

If you still wish for the source files please tell me.

Cheers, Sebastian


On 26/07/2017 17:03, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 07/26/2017 09:20 AM, Sebastian L. wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> [...]
>> How would one change the frontmatter counter to roman numbers (I, II,
>> III etc.)? And the first page of the bodymatter to 1 instead of 1.1? For
>> the record: within the PDF itself the numbers are printed correctly
>> (front: no numbers, body: 1, 2, 3 etc.). This seems to be reader
>> software related. I saw romans for frontmatter and arabics for
>> bodymatter in other documents already, so I am sure there has to be a
>> way of achieving this in CTX.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> the wiki is your friend:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents. The answers to your
> questions are there.
>
> As to your first issue with wrong page numbering, I wasn’t able to
> reproduce your problem with the minimal sample and I’m not sure where
> you got the wrong page number. Only in the viewer?
>
> Could you provide a minimal sample (for both files) and your output
> document?
>
> Pablo