Well, that is very odd. It has always been the policy, as far back as I can
recall, that if the text begins on a page other than Arabic 1, to put Arabic
numerals prior to that until you get back to 1, then use Roman numerals for any
pages preceding those.
Evan
From: Cindy Rosenthal
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 11:24 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: was Re: mild complaint and request for rationale
Yes, Roger, and that's what I did with the previous book I proofed and with
this one;;the previous book was returned to me; the main part started on p. 19
and I was told to put roman numerals on the preceding pages; so this time,
after having done the same thing, using Arabic numbers up to p. 21; I
anticipated the book's being rejected and so went back and changed the
preceding page numbers to Roman numeral;s; it took several hours because the
print book's pages stuck together and I had to separate them,count to be sure
what the numeral should be, and replace the Arabic number with the right roman
numeral;I couldn't just assume. oh well, every thing's done now; a last spell
check and pagination check of the final chapters and I can check in the book
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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
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