Chuck: A simple solution might be to use both. In the page field you could use something like this: 578 (.pdf), 2880 (book). This is similar to the recommended format for census citations where there are page numbers both penned and stamped.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Arbogast Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:20 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about sourcing books Dermont, I understand what your saying and do agree to a point. Page 578 is the page on the pdf, however the pdf's were not split up due to size constraints. The actual book, hard back edition, is broken into 5 volumes, so that is why the CD version is in 5 CD's, you could get them one one CD or they could have combined them into one pdf but they chose to stick with the format of the hard back book to generate the pdf's for the CD version. What is confusing to me is why they didn't renumber each Volume in the hard back version. That is what I was confused about. I guess the main question is what am I sourcing, the pdf of the volume of the book or the actual volume of the book. Based on the source writer options, I thought soucing the actual item I held in my possesion was correct thus the CD pdf. But the pdf is just a scanned version of the actual pages in the book. I may have just made it more confusing but I'm not sure the best way to source it. Thanks for your input, Chuck On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Dermot McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuck, > > I just read over my reply to you and it didn't make sense even to me > (and I wrote it!!), so I'll try it again. > > Regarding the page numbers, I would use the number that is displayed > on the "page" itself (i.e., 2880) rather than 578. In my opinion, 578 > is the "pdf-generated" number which shows that the particular page is > the 578th in this portion of the document, but 2880 is the page number > of the "original" book. The fact that the book had to be split over 5 > CDs when transferred to PDF is incidental, and it's page numbering is, > therefore, incidental also. > > Sorry for the repetition, but hopefully this makes more sense. > > Regards, > > Dermot. > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp