[bksvol-discuss] Re: Puzzling Problem
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:38:57 -0500
Sure there's lower-case roman numerals. They are the ones not in caps.
I think many books begin their books with lower-case roman numerals. But, don't
know for sure.
Besides, it's just a suggestion, do it, don't do it, do some of it. It's your
call.
Bob
"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will
live on in the future we make,"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
----- Original Message -----
From: Jill O'Connell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Puzzling Problem
Mayrie, I'm curious to know what census came up with the idea of lower case
Roman numerals; is there even such a thing?
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Puzzling Problem
Hi Lori,
It isn't exact, but I have experienced what you are talking about. I
just number backward from roman numeral ix and if there are pages before roman
numeral i, well, then, I just leave them unnumbered.
Often there are pages before what the publisher seemed to consider the
first page of the book containing raves and things like that that they seem not
to consider pages.
Why do we number the preliminary pages? Because it makes sense, I
guess. And I assume that if the publisher actually numbered a page ix, then it
seems sensible that said publisher considered, or even did (but they didn't
scan) number the pages before that page with the preceding roman numerals.
This is not a step required by bookshare. Remember that bookshare only
requires that a book have all of its pages, an accurate copyright page and
title page, and 90% of page breaks, with the 90% of page numbers being in the
works to be required. The rest of what we have written about in our
documentation for proofreading and scanning are the things that a concensus of
quite a few people consider the best way to create the most readable books
possible. Since bookshare only requires the things I've mentioned above, as
Bob says, I guess the rest are just suggestions.
I do want to say that a lot of experience and conversation did go into
creating the suggestions that we created. And we didn't decide anything just
because we felt like making more work for ourselves or for other people.
I'm sorry everything isn't exact and set in stone. Or anywhere near
perfect in every single situation.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:11 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Puzzling Problem
Hi, Everyone,
I have a very minor puzzling situation in a book I'm proofreading.
In one of the newer documents on what to do as a proofreader, it states
that we are to number preliminary pages with lower case Roman numerals
beginning with i.
However, in this book I am proofing, the acknowledgments begin on IX (Roman
numeral nine), but there are ten actual pages before the acknowledgments begin.
One is a blank page which I can remove, but even so there will still be nine
preliminary pages before the first page with a page number, Roman numeral nine.
Do I begin my lower case numerals with zero--is there a Roman numeral for zero?
And why are we numbering these unnumbered preliminary pages anyway?
Bob, I'm waiting for a humorous answer from you, but also seriously what do
I do when the number of unnumbered pages is greater than the lower case
numerals?
Lori C.
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