Page Numbering Properties

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Joe:

At 10:40 AM -0800 3/6/06, Joe Malin wrote:
>I'm confused.

Sorry if I confused you by not being explicit about the examples of 
book numbering that I referred to that " begin body matter at page 1, 
or number front matter from page 1 and continue through body matter." 
I should have said, "...number front matter from page 1 in Arabic 
style and continue in Arabic style through body matter."

BTW, I didn't look at the numbering of "back matter," index or appendix pages.

>Peter's survey shows exactly what I would expect:
>
>1. some books use lowercase roman for front matter and then restart at 1
>in Arabic for the body.
>2. some books don't number the front matter, and then start at 1 in
>Arabic for the body.
>3. a few books have chosen the approach I am now taking; they start
>numbering front matter at 1 and then
>    continue through the body.
>
>The only difference between what Peter described and what I'm doing is
>that he doesn't mention the *format* use for style 3. I use Arabic
>throughout.
>
>FM can handle all three options, *if* option 3 uses the same number
>formatting in front matter and body. If David's standard has to be used,
>then FM won't work.

FM *can* perform what David and many others prefer or are required to 
do, just not completely automatically. What makes this really 
annoying is that FM does so many other things so well, you'd expect 
it. Again, perhaps this is a change from pre-release 7.x; anyone care 
to test and report?
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Regards,

Peter Gold
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