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Subject:Re: Odd Pages From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:58:43 MST
Kelly Burhenne wrote the following excerpts--
> Because each chapter should begin on page one. One is an odd number.
> Therefore, all chapters should begin on an odd page (on the right
> side)!
My logic instructor would probably have fun with that argument ...
But, anyway, unless you're using chapter numbering (1-2,
2-4), there is only one "page 1" in a book, so how can each
chapter begin on page one? I concede that *with chapter
numbering*, all chapters will begin on the right because of the
convention of "page 1" always being on the right.
> Unless you want to start chapters on page two or thirty-two or
> whatever it is you're proposing (which is ludicrous).
Many books, manuals, and guides use consecutive page numbering
throughout the book. It is perfectly feasible for a chapter to
begin on page 32. Unless of course you believe that such
publishers as Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton
Mifflin use ludicrous page numbering techniques. I have several
technical reference books from them, and their chapters begin on
both odd and even pages (in the same book).
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