Re: [OT] Curious about persian page numbers

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 17:55:59 EST

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On 2002.11.21, 20:39, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:

> > At least in Portugal, roman numbers are *never* lower case.
>
> Not even in the front matter of books?

Nope, never. Volume number, chapter number, century number -- article,
section, page, you-name-it number -- all upper case. Always.

That is -- until the typographic illiterate started using non-localized
DTP and WP software... ;-) But even so it is still very rare.

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