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/ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -- stan straw professor of language & literacy 270 education bldg university of manitoba winnipeg, manitoba R3T 2N2 phone: 204-474-9074 fax: 204-474-7550 email: [log in to unmask] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-