This package modifies the definitions of \frontmatter and \mainmatter so that page numbering starts in arabic style from the front matter while preserving the rest of the original definitions. For it to work, \pagenumbering has to be inside these macros—most of classes do that, but there are exceptions like memoir.

The package is part of the bezos bundle.

The author is Javier Bezos. The package is Copyright © 2006 Javier Bezos.