Talk:Page numbering

Newspaper page numbering

Modern newspapers have two-part page numbers consisting of a letter followed by one or more digits. Page numbers in a new section of the paper start with a new letter; the digits portion is reset to one.

Persons of a certain age from smaller towns may remember all pages of a paper being numbered sequentially, without regard for section breaks.

This article would be a good place to identify:

• Which newspaper started the two-part numbering scheme.
• When they introduced it.

- Ac44ck (talk) 23:24, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Weird schemes

I’ve seen some weird schemes in medical journals references ; for instance, this one says “p. 108ra114”. Information about that would be welcome. Palpalpalpal (talk) 20:46, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Looking at this journal's table of contents [1], "108ra114" can be decoded as "Issue 108, Department/Section "Research Article", Page 114". There are other examples:

"108fs8" -> "Issue 108, Department/Section "Focus", Page 8"

"108ps44" -> "Issue 108, Department/Section "Perspective", Page 44"

"108ra112" -> "Issue 108, Department/Section "Editor's Choice", Page 179".

These letters can be all-upper or all-lowercase, e.g. "fs"/"FS", "ps"/"PS", "ra"/"RA", "ec"/"EC" (there might be more combinations to name other departments/sections). Issues for this journal appear to be absolute, not relative to the annual volume numbers (Volume 3 in this case). Pages are relative to a particular issue, not department.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 16:17, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Quality counts

The quality of this article can best be described as in the region of the "spherical and plural". to paraphrase Howard Carter, the supposed victim of the 'Mummy's Curse'. Can we please have a typesetting expert rewrite this guff.27.33.247.210 (talk) 10:58, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

ISO standard

Is there an ISO standard for this? – Kaihsu (talk) 07:59, 29 August 2018 (UTC)