I have found the problem, but am still seeking a little help: I had created a setup to raise the page number in the footer. Calling this setup resulted in the frontpart pages reverting to arabic instead of roman: \startsetups pnfooter \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=] \setupfooter [style=normal] \setupfootertexts [{\framed[width=max,frame=off,boffset=2mm]{\pagenumber}}] \stopsetups How can I continue to use the setup but still get my roman numerals in the frontpart? Julian On 26/6/24 10:52, jbf wrote:

Something that has worked for me in the past is not working for me at the moment, and I cannot figure out why:

\startsectionblockenvironment [frontpart] \setupuserpagenumber [numberconversion=romannumerals] \setcounter [userpage] [5] \stopsectionblockenvironment \startsectionblockenvironment [bodypart] \setcounter [userpage] [1] \stopsectionblockenvironment

gives me roman numerals in the TOC but not on the frontmatter pages, which are arabic. Bodymatter is okay. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

Even with a different setup I get the same result:

\definestructureconversionset [frontpart:pagenumber] [] [romannumerals] \setupheads[title][sectionconversionset=section] \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart] \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \stopsectionblockenvironment

Puzzling (for me at least).

Julian