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Subject:Re: Page numbering within a Section From:David Chinell <dchinell -at- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:30:00 -0400
Listers:
I consider such page numbering a mild disservice
to the reader. It complicates the use of random
access tools (TOC and Index) because it's harder
to remember. It impedes fanning to a given page
number because the page numbers no longer show
your progress through the pages.
If you want to do this to save money when adding
pages to a manual, please just renumber and
reissue the entire chapter. That's why you number
pages with a chapter number prefix, after all.
Having said that, to accomplish your scheme you
must treat the decimal numbered pages as a
separate section. The '1-3' portion can be a
manually-typed prefix to the decimal portion. The
decimal portion is a simple page number sequence.
You'll need to change the page number format in
each decimal-numbered section, reinstate it in the
following section, and set the starting page
number in both sections.
