[duxuser] Re: interpoint page numbering
- From: "Jean Menzies" <jemenzies@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:35:08 -0700
Thanks, Bruce.
I'll share this as we decide how we're going to handle it. For sure leaving
them is easiest.
Jean
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From: "Bruce Toews" <bruce@xxxxxxxx>
To: "DBT list" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:55 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: interpoint page numbering
There are no real guidelines. CNIB will leave the page number on the blank
pages, most NLS producers will not. There's no hard and fast rule I know
of governing this.
bruce
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Jean Menzies wrote:
> The agency I work for is doing its first book in interpoint. It is a
> novel, so it's not complicated. We're using textbook formatting according
> to BANA. My question for list members is about page numbering. It has been
> decided to force certain preliminary material to an odd right-hand page.
> E.g., Special Symbols, Transcriber's Notes, and maybe the beginning of the
> Table of Contents. I know how to do that with the top and sd1 codes.
>
> What is the best practice for treatment of the then blank odd page number?
> Is it okay to leave the page numbers running with the page blank, or
> should they be terminated. Are there interpoint guidelines for this? If
> they should be terminated,, in other words, counted but not embossed, how
> do you suppress the page numbers on the skipped pages? We are thinking of
> braille page numbers on both odd and even in the bottom right corner.
> Again, are there preferred practices for this for interpoint?
>
> If such a skip were needed in the body of a volume where you needed to
> suppress both print and braille page numbers, how would that be done?
> Again, would the count be implied but not embossed, left as embossed, or
> not embossed with the new page on the right having to be reset?
>
> I'm sure this is more complicated than it needs to be. My vote is to allow
> the page number to run on the skipped even pages, but I'm wondering if
> there is actually a correct way of doing this.
>
> Jean
>
> "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how
> much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know
> and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to
> know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."
> --William Feather
>
>
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