That makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, that information has come too
late. Chapter 1 begins on. p. 21 If I hadn't spent so long going back and
putting in Roman numerals (the print pages stuck together so it took time
separating them and sure I had the right numbers for the right page and
changed the Arabic numbers on that page to the Roman numerals i I'd have
this book checked in now. But for a previous book I proofed I'd done that
and was told I had to put in the Roman numerals The book was rejected and
sent back to me for that correction after I'd checked it in
Vanessa -- clarification please.
Cindy
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Deborah Murray <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Hi Cindy,
You don’t have to use Roman numerals if the text of the book begins on a
page other than page 1. Your first inclination was correct—simply number
back from the first numbered page of the book until you number back to one.
Use the Roman numerals if you still have un-numbered pages, or if the print
copy has used Roman numerals for the preliminary pages.
Does that make sense?
Deborah
*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@
freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Rosenthal
*Sent:* Saturday, October 29, 2016 3:55 AM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Cc:* Vanessa Wai
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] mild complaint and request for rationale
I've just spent a few hours changing pages that precede the main text of
a book to lower case Roman numerals. Originally I'd numbered them with
Arabic numbers to end up with p. 21 which is the page on which Chapter 1
is.
Why, since the book has Arabic page numbers do we have use Roman
numerals for preceding pages? I thought we're not supposed to do things
differently from the print book
Cindy
