jim said:
How do you propose to deal with texts that have a large number of “prefix” pages numbered something like “iii” for example?
How do you propose to deal with texts that have a large number of “prefix” pages which are not numbered at all?
How do you propose to deal with texts where the numbering scheme was screwed up in the original text?
How do you propose to deal with texts which do not count illustration pages in their numbering scheme?
Etc.
Again, it’s great to have a simple system that works except when it doesn’t work in which case it’s not so simple anymore.
gee, jim. i just talked about how people get bamboozled by small issues, which can be hurdled quite easily if you just set your mind to it... and here you make a reply with a whole handful of small issues. not even "small", really... more like _tiny_... even _teeny-tiny_... indeed, if you really look at the example i discussed, you'll see that several of your questions were answered there _already_... so i'm not even going to go through the exercise of answering. if you really want answers, you can generate them yourself, or go back and look where i have been discussing this issue for _many_years_, and review any one of those exhausting threads. there _is_ such a thing as a stupid question. i've asked them myself, as have all of us. and jim, you just asked a _handful._ but you know, jim, the thing i'm wondering is this... i've held this position on intelligent filenaming conventions for _years_ now. and that's just counting on _this_listserve._ i've been practicing what i preach for about two decades now. if there was really some problem with my system, don't you think i would have discovered it by now? do you really think that you can come up with a reaction in your first 5 minutes that i haven't experienced in the years and years and years i've been doing intensely close analysis of book digitization? i mean, _seriously_... did you really think i just happened to "overlook" that books generally have forward-matter pages, and that those pages have a different pagenumber sequence? and do you really think i just hadn't ever noticed that some of the illustration-pages in books are unnumbered pages? really? so let me say this _again_, jim... if you want to have dialog with me, you _cannot_ say stupid things. you simply cannot. because i won't continue to talk with you if you do. capiche? -bowerbird