title: manually define page numbers in latex?
body: <p>I am editing a 100+ page document in latex, document class is "book".
  The first few pages of the document have roman page numbers, the rest have arabic page numbers <em>starting with one</em>.
  I.e. the document has page numbers i-iv, followed by pages 1-120.
  However, want I want is the pages to be: vii-ix, followed by pages 1-120.
  (reason: I am inserting some other PDF pages preceding the PDF ultimately generated by latex, and this obviously leads to all following page numbers beeing higher).</p>
  
  <p>So how can I increase the roman page numbers to start from a higher number (but not increase the arabic page numbers at the samee time)?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>