Re: Page/quire order, was RE: VMs: F66r

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi William,

At 16:52 15/06/2004 +0100, William Edmondson wrote:
> One thought  -  for those of us who might find it tedious to realise the 
> results of all this discussion.....

BTW, what I'm planning to do next is to create a "2-up PDF" (ie two pages 
side by side) of the balneo quire that can be printed out double-sided, so 
that we can all be playing with the same set of bifolios. It'll not quite 
be a full-on facsimile edition, but it should be a good start towards 
working out the ordering correctly etc. :-)

> I find it really difficult (even with two large comptuer screens to help 
> me) to sort out the mental ordering of 200 odd pages filed under some 
> other order.

Have you thought of applying any of the file renaming scripts kindly posted 
to the list recently to your set of sidfiles/jpegs?

You could also arrange the images (on disk) by quire (ie one quire per 
subdirectory): that might help you see the (apparent) structure of what 
we're dealing with here a bit more clearly.

> Why don't we just provide for ourselves the list of Beinecke image numbers 
> ordered as we think best.  If we then print for ourselves the images in 
> this order, and bind them (or set up our computer files ditto), then we 
> can work with what we believe to be the coherent order.  We can number the 
> pages as we like and append the significant last 4 digits of the Beinecke 
> image just for safety.

For discussion purposes, the pages all have a proper name ("f1r" etc) and a 
proper order (the foliation order): we really truly honestly definitely 
don't need to invent new terminology, names, or indeed anything, based on 
database ids. Please, no more database ids! No more! :-(

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: a friend recently told me how every graphics artist in the company he 
worked for had been assigned an "asset id" - so, instead of saying "John, 
can you build me a model of this house?", they'd get an automated email 
from their database software allocating "task #24656" to "asset #34545" 
etc. It used to be the case that everyone liked to be told that they're an 
"asset" to their employers... but perhaps not quite that literally. :-O 

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