[texhax] Having trouble with roman numerals

[Uwe Lueck]

At 2015-06-10 05:14 +02:00, Frank Earnest wrote:
> Hello, I'm having trouble getting the numbering
> on the front pages to be roman numerals.
> Here's the text:
> 
> \documentclass[11pt,oneside,a4paper]{book}
> \usepackage{draftwatermark}

Sorry, my minimalistic TeX installation does not
include draftwatermark, I am referring to what 
happens without it.

> \usepackage{indentfirst}
> \begin{document}
> \frontmatter
> \pagenumbering{roman}
> \title{The tale of two obscurities}
> \author{David Niklas}
> \date{04/22/2015}
> %copyright{Frank Ernest 2015++}
> \maketitle

You are providing code for nothing but the title 
page of a book.  It would be a horrible style if 
the title page had a page number.  In order to 
discuss Roman page numbers, please provide text 
for some front matter such as a preface.  When I 
append "Preface?" to your code (w/o drafwatermark), 
I do get a page with a Roman page number.

> I'm running Funtoo linux.

Are there any more Funtoo Linux runners?
Thanks for telling about the most recent 123.456th 
Linux flavor.  There may be more recent Linux 
flavors that are fun, too.

> If you could also tell me how to make a copyright
> it would save me another post (the current method
> I had to comment out because it did not work).

You have found a way to include a copyright statement 
in a source file.  If your goal is including a 
copyright statement in an output file, please 
say what you expect of it.  Do you want that it is 
printed on certain pages of the book?  There may be 
a few pages of the book's front matter where such 
statement might be acceptable.  If you are asking 
for a copyright statement on the title page or on 
each page of the book, I do not want to help you.

Cheers,

    Uwe.