If I was looking for a specific page and pages were numbered in the
Roman style up to page twenty and then suddenly switched to Arabic I am
sure that I would become confused.
On 10/29/2016 11:57 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
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 <mailto: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
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