Before I start a book I always check to find out what page has the first
page number and then count the pages backward to find out if I have to
add any Roman numerals. The pagination formatting is too variable from
book to book for me to just assume that there will be preliminary pages
before page one. It is something that should always be checked before
starting.
On 10/29/2016 8:03 AM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
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 <mailto: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
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*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
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