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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 5-3-2 on page I-387 in "chappg --- Page numbers by chapters".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exareport}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{102.60104pt}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\renewcommand\chapter[2]{#2\par} % drop * and title in book example
%% drop one page in book (first)
\pagestyle{origplain} %plain in this class
\setlength\textheight{58pt}
\addtolength\headsep{-12pt} % shortened for the book
\addtolength\footskip{-12pt} % shortened for the book
\sloppy
\typeout{***********************************^^J
This example generates a warning, but it is bogus: the package
doesn't realize that we are directly behind a \noexpand\chapter which
issues a \noexpand\clearpage command.^^J%
***********************************^^J}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lipsum,chappg}
% -- only pages 2-3 shown on the left --
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\chapter*{Preface}
\pagenumbering[Preface]{bychapter}
\lipsum*[1][1-3] \ldots\ here we are in
the middle of the front matter where
chapters are usually unnumbered.
\end{document}
