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Old 08-13-2009, 10:40 PM   #38
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I've been playing around with, and am having the same problem with roman numeral page numbers. I don't care so much about not being able to "go to" them, but, on my Sony, they do offset the numbers on the right, and the number shown at the bottom. If there are 7 pages with Roman numerals, if I type in "107" and click the browse button, I end up on page 100: it reads 100 on the right and 107 on the bottom.

Here's a warning from someone claiming that this extension should not be used, and may be deprecated:
http://groups.google.com/group/epubc...2994b3538ff687

It also, however, adds the tantalizing line, "As noted above, the same page mapping functionality is easily enabled
using the NCX <pageList> element, which is supported in EPUB. And I encourage reading system developers to support it." Anyone know anything about that?

I can attest that trying to play tricks with these things can make the ePub not function properly. I'd say more research is necessary.

Edit: AHA! Check this out:
http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/200812...-the-epub-ncx/

(Off to try it.)

Edit 2: Oops. I got over-excited there. I missed the part that reads:
Quote:
I would like to add that although the above method IS valid against the NCX DTD, marking up pages numbers in this way has not yet been officially approved by the IDPF. It must also be noted that there are yet no reading systems that would utilize this information.
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