Gary Schnabl wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
I am toying with renumbering each chapter's pages from where the
previous chapter left off, as long as there is a continuous sequence
of copyedited chapters starting with chapter 1.
Please don't do that.
Some chapters will later be revised when OOo changes, and the page
numbers will get out of sync unless ALL the following chapters' page
numbers are updated and ALL the PDFs are regenerated. That's a lot of
extra work for no real value to the reader, and is unlikely to happen.
--Jean
It would make more sense to utilize chapter and page numbering then
for those chapters: e.g., 7-2 or some such.
IIRC, there is some "gotcha" in getting that to work without unwanted
side-effects. I don't recall which of the several possible problems this
one is, but I do recall we concluded that keeping it simple made
everyone's life much easier.
But having recurrent page 1s for every chapter is a bit much.
That way, if somebody wanted to refer to a certain page,
he/she/it wouldn't always have to explicitly refer to the
chapter/subject matter also each and every time, especially when
simultaneously referring to multiple chapters.
Even using your suggestion (chapter-page numbers), the page numbers in
the stand-alone chapters won't agree with the page numbers in the
compiled book, so your suggestion might solve one alleged problem but
would not solve the other and might make it worse. Unless we went back
to not including the title/copyright/toc pages in the page numbering
sequence... but then we also return to the problem of the page numbers
in the document not agreeing with the page sequence of the PDF.
But I have no special preference for any particular pagination scheme.
Let's keep it simple, then. The current method is not perfect, but it
works and it's simple.
--Jean
