Interesting rationale, Roger, and that makes sense; but why are Roman
numerals necessary for navigaton rather than Arabic numbers? maybe that's
what's necessary for vanessa to explain. Why couldn't the pages preceding
page 21 ( in this case, p. 19 in my other book be navigated with Arabic
numbers?
Cindy
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, the point is to preserve the pagination in the print book. If page 1
starts on page 15 you have to preserve that pagination even if it is an
annoyance. And it is an annoyance. I thought that back when I was fully
sighted and was reading print books. It has always seemed to me that page 1
should start on page 1. But that's not the way the publishers saw it. It is
a practice that has been going on long enough that it is a tradition, for
the pages that come before the Arabic numbered pages to be numbered in
lower case Roman numerals. If that is how the actual print book has them
then you are following the way that book was printed to include them that
way. If they are unnumbered in the print book I suppose Bookshaere needs
some kind of page numbers for navigation purposes and just follows that
tradition. It is the text that we are not supposed to change and that has
to do with copyright. Page numbers have to do with formatting the book and
are not copyrighted. There can be certain changes in that to conform to
Bookshare formatting standards, but insofar as the book is already numbered
it is necessary to preserve that. If you are in a classroom, for example,
and the teacher says to turn to some page you will want everyone to be on
the same page. It is also important to have those page numbers correct for
citations if you are writing a research paper or otherwise making reference
to the book.
On 10/29/2016 3:54 AM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
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
