[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:38:04 -0600

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  
>>>  
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>>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal
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>>> 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.
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