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From: John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: off topic: page numbering question
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:43:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873adgcoti.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gpfvs3$ea0$1@ger.gmane.org> (WolfgangZ's message of "Sat\, 14 Mar 2009 11\:11\:16 +0100")

WolfgangZ <wollez@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> my question is not directly related to context, so please excuse.
>
> In my document I have even before the abstract the summary in 2
> languages. Then the TOC (table of contents), then list of symbols
> which is followed by the introduction.
>
> But where do I start with page number 1?
>  - at the very beginning?
>  - at the TOC (earlier pages get then numbered I, II, III, ...
>  - at the introduction?

It's probably frowned on by real writers, but I actually make the
front cover page 1. This is just so that when you go to print an
extract of the document (or "go to" a page number when viewing), the
page numbers match those in the software dialog.

Having said that it may well be that PDF viewers are clever enough to
know the "logical" page number rather than the physical one, does
anyone know about this?

[...]


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-14 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-14 10:11 WolfgangZ
2009-03-14 11:43 ` John Devereux [this message]
2009-03-14 12:01   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-14 13:29     ` John Devereux

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