Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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
According to the CMoS, the arabic numbering would start with the
exposition after the front matter (for us, the ToC). And of course, the
front matter would generally be lowercase roman. We do ours a bit
differently--using arabic for the ToC also.
So according to the CMoS, in the single-chapter versions the front
matter numbering would have the first (title or half-title) page as an
unexpressed i, with the copyright page and the first ToC page also being
unexpressed lowercase roman. The first expressed numbered page would be
the first verso ToC page. For us, that would be page iv. Anyway, that's
the common CMoS SOP.
So, doing it the CMoS fashion, the first page of the exposition in the
chapter would start the arabic numbering. Doing the chapter-page or the
sequential numbering makes more sense than continually restarting the
numbering at 1 for each chapter, and it's not complicated at all. Our
method is probably TOO simple. A good master-document scheme, such as
the book mechanism in FrameMaker would simply redo the numbering for the
book(s) easily, regardless of what pagination that the subdocuments used.
Gary
