Hi Cindy,
You don’t have to use Roman numerals if the text of the book begins on a page
other than page 1. Your first inclination was correct—simply number back from
the first numbered page of the book until you number back to one. Use the Roman
numerals if you still have un-numbered pages, or if the print copy has used
Roman numerals for the preliminary pages.
Does that make sense?
Deborah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] mild complaint and request for rationale
I've just spent a few hours changing pages that precede the main text of a
book to lower case Roman numerals. Originally I'd numbered them with Arabic
numbers to end up with p. 21 which is the page on which Chapter 1 is.
Why, since the book has Arabic page numbers do we have use Roman numerals for
preceding pages? I thought we're not supposed to do things differently from
the print book
Cindy
