Page numbering between front matter and main body of the text
LaurentRosenfeld opened this issue · comments
Hm, not sure that this is an issue at all, this may be perfectly legitimate, so I am just asking just to make sure it does not go unnoticed.
In the PDF generated from LaTeX, the front matter has pages numbered in Roman numerals, say I to XIX, or something similar. Then, the first chapter has pages in Arabic numerals, starting at 1 and going to 390, or whatever.
In the PDF generated from DocBook, the preface ends on page XX, and the main matter (chapter 1) starts with page number 23 (with two blank numeration pages in between). So in effect, we have the following page succession: XX, (none), (none), 23.
This is perfectly consistent and I have absolutely no problem with that, I just wonder if this is the usual policy of O'Reilly. I have just looked at several books, including two relatively recent ones from O'Reilly (such as Programming Perl (4th E)), it seems that the normal policy is to restart numbering at 1 when getting to the book main matter (that's also what Lamport and Knuth do in their LaTeX and TeX books, but, with all due respect to them, I would not mind very much departing from them on such trivia).
Frankly, I personally don't care, so I am just asking Matt if O'Reilly has a definite policy on such page numbering, or if this an artifact due to the conversion. If not, anyone please close this issue.
House style is to have the page numbers restart after the frontmatter. We have to add a pagenumrestart role to the first part or chapter that follows the frontmatter, and we typically do that when a book reaches production, if it hasn't already been done. I can add it now, but it seems like you may still be generating new DocBook files from the LaTeX.
This is done now (will be visible in the CE PDF), so I think we can close this issue.
OK, if this is now OK, fine with me to close the issue.