Re: \thispagestyle{empty} not working for me

Rich Shepard wrote:

> Jürgen,
> 
> If I remove that line then the ToC numbering is in uppercase Roman
> numerals rather than lowercase roman numerals. Is this controlled
> somewhere else? Just curious.

It's controlled by the class (frontmatter definition). And you are right,
svmono.cls sets the page numbering to uppercase roman (and sets the counter
to 5), while the standard book class (and KOMA too) uses lowercase roman
(and sets the counter to 1). Compare the definitions:

---->svmono.cls
\newcommand\frontmatter{\startnewpage
            \@mainmatterfalse\pagenumbering{Roman}
            \setcounter{page}{5}}
---->book.cls
\newcommand\frontmatter{%
    \cleardoublepage
  \@mainmatterfalse
  \pagenumbering{roman}}

So best is to use the \pagenumbering{roman} command as you have done (or
redefine \frontmatter in preamble).

> BTW, I will go down to Powell's Tech Book store this evening after the
> rush hour traffic has left Portland and buy a copy of The LaTeX Companion,
> 2ed Ed.

That's a good choice. This book is incredible. No doubt Frank Mittelbach is
a wizard.

Jürgen.