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Subject:Re: Pagination with inter-chapter pages From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:21:37 -0700
I'm in favor of what I'd guess you'd call continuous page numbering,
whether you choose to display the page number or not. To put it another
way, I think any visible page numbers should correspond to the number of
pages you'd see if you were scrolling through an online version of the
document.
I did a quick scan of a couple of my favorite books that use the
fluff/filler/divider scheme (the merits of which we'll not discuss, as
agreed), and found they obeyed this tradition.
The reason I qualified my statement with the term "visible" is that in the
examples I looked at, no page numbers were shown on the fluff pages.
For example, in my beloved copy of Jonathan Price's "How to Write a
Computer Manual," part three of his book ends on page 189. After five
unnumbered pages of very tasteful fluff and chapter-title and
subchapter-title pages, the next time you see a page number is at 195,
where the text of the next section begins.
Particularly in light of the popularity of presenting and viewing
documents online, I think it's much less confusing to the reader if the
numbers on the numbered pages are in synch with the actual number of
pages. (Say THAT three times real fast.)
-Keith Cronin
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