Gary Schnabl wrote:
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.
Yes, we decided to *NOT* do it the CMOS (and standard "printed book") way, because our chapters and books are now designed for ease-of-use for PDF readers, who mostly do NOT want the page numbers to differ from the sequence number in the PDF... that is, start at 1 on the title page and continue unchanged through the chapter (or book).
... 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.
The idea is easy in principle, and works fine under some circumstances, but not all of those circumstances apply in our chapters.
When I tried to do this several years ago, I found that implementing the chapter-page numbering scheme in the stand-alone chapters is complicated (technically), at least if you want the ToC to show the chapter numbers. I forget all the details, but I remember clearly that each time we solved one problem, we created another. --Jean
