Marcello wrote:
Jon Niehof wrote:
You should be able to get a dispense for that (from Pope Noring I) and unstandardly use:
<laugh/> And I'm not even Roman Catholic!
Many of the tools currently assume that PNG numbers are strictly numeric and monotonically increasing.
The only thing that has to be grafted on for now is a function to export the images into renamed files. Write a tool that asks:
What would be done for books where the endmatter is not paginated the same way as the body of the book? For example, appendices which may have their own page number system (such as A-1, B-3, etc.) or where there are pages at the back which are unnumbered (e.g., the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana book I recently submitted to DP)? And what about unnumbered blank pages? And what about two-sided foldouts? And what about certain tracts which use no page numbering at all? It's handling exceptions which always complicates things such as page naming conventions for page scans. And this I am definitely interested in for the projects I've been studying. It would seem the page naming system has to be self-descriptive enough so that it can be machine-processed to provide an unambiguous picture of how the pages were numbered/named (if at all) in every document, as well as describing other things such as page ordering, blank pages, foldouts, etc. Maybe the page numbering should be a two part system where the first part is a number describing the order of the scan as found in the book (how to handle foldouts has to be defined by some convention), and the second which describes what the publisher named or numbered that page scan? At least with a machine-readable filename, it would be possible to transform the filenames for particular needs, such as DjVu. Anyway, what other unusual page numbering systems do we find in the old books? I'm sure the PG and DP veterans can share some unusual things they've encountered. Jon