Roger articulated it clearly and completely as it has been described multiple times to me in the past. Valerie > On Nov 27, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender > "rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't know what it accomplishes for the reader either. I am just repeating > what was said on this list once in the past when the question came up. As I > understand the rule it goes like this. Books frequently have pages numbered > with Roman numerals before the page numbered 1 with Arabic numerals. Most > often those pages are numbered with lower case Roman numerals up to the point > that Arabic numerals begin. By the way, I have always disliked that and I > disliked it back when I was reading print books with my eyes. It has just > always seemed fit and proper to me that the first page of a book should be > page one. However, that is not how many, many books are numbered. When those > preliminary pages are numbered with lower case Roman numerals we are supposed > to retain them. If there are no Roman numerals or any other kind of numerals > on the pages before the beginning of the Arabic numerals with the Arabic > numeral1 we are supposed to number them with lower case Arabic numerals > ourselves. On occasion there will be preliminary pages that are numbered with > lower case Roman numerals up to Arabic numeral1, but before Roman numeral i > there will be even more pages that are not numbered at all. Once before the > question of how to number those pages came up on this list. We were > instructed to number those prepreliminary pages with capitol Roman numerals > I, II, III and so forth up to the page that is numbered with lower case Roman > numeral i. > On 11/27/2014 3:18 PM, ohio1803@xxxxx <mailto:ohio1803@xxxxx> wrote: >> I am wishing for clarification here. >> >> wrote: >> Pages preceding the Roman numeral pages in lower case should be numbered >> with a separate sequence of capitalized Roman numerals. >> >> This does not completely make sense to me. >> First is it a scanning question, or is it a validator’s question? >> >> Does this mean when you ADD an uppercase Roman numeral? >> Or also when you are just moving it from say the bottom to top of the page? >> >> I don’t remember hearing about it either. >> And I have not noticed it in books as I read them, to hear 2 roman numerals >> on a numbered pages. >> I would like to hear what this is exactly accomplishing for the reader or >> whatever. >> >> Thanks. >> Rik >> >> >> >> From: mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:36 PM >> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question >> >> I don't know when it started, but my own knowledge of it comes from >> discussion on this list from a long time ago. How long, I don't remember. >> On 11/27/2014 2:19 PM, Susan Lumpkin wrote: >>> Cindy, I didn’t know that either and haven’t seen anything about it before. >>> I’ve never done that in the past. I wonder when this started? >>> >>> Susan >>> >>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal >>> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 1:43 AM >>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question >>> >>> Interesting. I didn't know that. I better save that info in my file of such >>> things. Thanks, Roger >>> Cindy >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Roger Loran Bailey >>> <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>> Pages preceding the Roman numeral pages in lower case should be numbered >>> with a separate sequence of capitalized Roman numerals. >>> >>> On 11/26/2014 4:07 PM, Kim Friedman wrote: >>> Hi, I'm about to start a project. There are Roman numerals in my file and >>> the first one is I (in this case it doesn't have a capital letter which is >>> how Bookshare specifies). My question is how does one number a page before >>> Roman numeral I? Regards, Kim Friedman. >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of >>> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of >>> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >>> >>> >> > >