I won't even try to get into the issue of Roman numerals for
introductory pages and Arabic numerals for textual pages. But let's hope
you students never have to edit a book.
stan
Russ Hunt wrote:
> Rick's right (why am I not surprised?):
>
>> Traditionally title pages of papers were not numbered--just as you
>> wouldn't number the title page of a book. But the style is changing,
>> I think. One reason is that computers rule, and a lot of users
>> wouldn't know how to tell their wordprocessors to number as page one
>> what the software counts as the 2nd page of of the document. In
>> short, there are two ways of looking at this: one makes sense to the
>> human mind which is capable of perceiving the title page as not a
>> real page; the other makes sense to the software, which has not been
>> programmed for such subtlety.
>
> But (and Rick won't be surprised that I have a "but" [no snickers,
> please]) . . .
>
> Sure, this is made harder by puters -- who hasn't been tacked off by a
> *.pdf file which numbers its pages from the first screen, regardless
> of actual page numbers, so what _says_ "page 7" at the bottom is
> identified by the program as "p. 11" or something?
>
> This really underlines the point I made, though: what I think we
> should be doing is equipping our students to navigate these issues as
> they change, and continue to change; to understand why they are the
> way they are (how many of your students know that the hoary tradition
> of double spacing papers comes from the need for editors to have space
> to instruct typesetters?) and seeing what's important about them, in
> terms of gaining effective entry to the discourse communities you want
> to be part of.
>
> -- Russ
>
> Russell Hunt
> Department of English
> St. Thomas University
> http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
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