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"Ed L. Cashin" wrote:

> I am having trouble figuring out how to switch pagenumbering in the
> middle of a document, e.g., having different styles of pagenumbering
> for frontmatter and bodymatter.

Ha, this is a bug, but only in english. Something I overlooked when I
started supporting multiple interfaces. You can add this to (if absent,
make it) cont-new.tex: 

\unprotect

\def\dostelpaginanummerin[#1]%
  {\getparameters
     [\??pn]
     [\c!status=\v!start,
      \c!nummer=,
      #1]%
   \doifsomething{\@@pnnummer}
     {\setnummer[\s!page]{\@@pnnummer}%
      \setuserpageno{\ruwenummer[\s!page]}}}

\protect

(Some day soon the whole low level of context will be english, already
runs experimentally.)

> I'd like to have lowercase roman numerals for the frontmatter page
> numbers, and then reset the page numbering to one, using arabic page
> numbers for the bodymatter.  I'm having trouble getting \page[1] or
> \setuppagenumber[number=1] to reset the page number to one also.

Berend is right: \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals]

Hans

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