al said:
I'm looking for examples of how page numbers are handled/ formatted throughout the main portion of a text e-book (that material between its Table of Contents and its Index). Can someone point me to a few examples?
i don't know of any _text_ examples in the p.g. library. but here's a demo of one using my zen markup language:
this example was created for the purpose of coordinating the _scans_ for the pages with the text, so it's a little more broad that just the incorporation of the page-numbers... to see how these individual pages are presented to people for convenient viewing on the web, go to:
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/myant/myantp003.html (the number in the u.r.l. indicates the page-number, so you can quickly and easily navigate to any page.)
i can't say for sure that this is the _final_ version of how page-oriented markers will be formatted, but the final version won't be much different from this. for instance, here's the break between pages 11 and 12:
she talked. "But first you come down to the kitchen with me, and have a nice warm bath
[[9]] {{myantp010.png}} || My Antonia ||
behind the stove. Bring your things; there's nobody about.
the page-number of a page is put underneath the text for the page, surrounded by double-brackets. (this is irrespective of where it was in the p-book.) and right underneath that is the name of the scan for the next page (in this case, p. 10), surrounded by double-curly-brackets, and the running-head for that page is also included on that same line... (the or-bars indicate left/center/right justification.) in this particular example, there is one blank line above the double-bracketed page-number and one below the double-curly-bracket scan-name. this indicates that the paragraph is continued... in the case where a _new_ paragraph starts at the top of a page, there will be _two_ blank lines above the page-number on the previous page, as well as _two_ blank lines after the scan-name. this is because each page is an entity unto itself. thus, the preceding page needs to know that its bottom line is the concluding line of a paragraph -- because such lines are not to be justified -- and the first line on the following page needs to know that it's the first line of a paragraph, so that it's indented if the user specified such indentation. you can see a case where a new paragraph starts on a page by searching for "{{myantp004.png}}". this situation of new-versus-continued paragraphs is one that even abbyy hasn't quite perfected yet, so it's not at all uncommon to find errors in this regard. and sometimes the decision isn't all that easy to make. for example, look at this scan:
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/myant/myantp014.png at the page bottom, the last line, is that the end of a paragraph?
now look at this one and answer that same question:
and this one:
and this one:
and this one:
and this one:
and this one:
and this one:
and this one:
(to discover the answers, just add 1 to the number in each u.r.l., which will take you to the next page, where an indentation will indicate that a new paragraph has started, which means that the last line on the previous page was the end of that paragraph. for those who are too lazy to do this, the answers are in the p.s.) and there is another variant on this, the page on which a new _chapter_ starts. search for "{{myantp009.png}}" and you'll find an example of this. whenever this occurs, you'll see there are 3 blank lines above the page-number on the preceding page, and 4 blank lines below the scan-name (and thus above the title of the chapter, as per p.g. standard). pages that start a new _section_ have 3 blank lines above the page-number on the preceding page, and 7 blank lines below the scan-name (and above the title of the section). and yes, of course, the program that presents this z.m.l. file knows how to collapse all of that page-number/scan-name information appropriately, so the person reading the e-text doesn't have to deal with all of that disorienting clutter. the reader gets nicely formatted text -- indented paragraphs if they want, section and chapter headings that are big and bold, if they want, and page-numbers corresponding to the original p-book source, if they want -- but still the task of "authoring" the e-text (doing the zen markup, if you will) is very elementary. even a fourth-grader could do it. -bowerbird p.s. for the answers to the questions posed above, scroll down... respectively, the answers are no/no/no/no/no/yes/yes/yes/yes.