Personal Books Milestone Possibilities? Page and Column?

I'm converting an old newspaper into a personal book. I'd like to be able to make milestones for pages and for columns. There is no need to display the actual columnar text, but it would be helpful to refer to the columns originally in the print version.

I see on the Wiki, that there are a datatype examples given for Page, VolumePage, and VolumePageLine.

See here.

Is there a PageColumn datatype?

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Robert M. Warren

Hi Jim:

Beyond a special datatype for a specific philosophy translation (see https://community.logos.com/forums/t/117874.aspx ), I was unable to discover a generic milestone for columns in a Google search. (That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.)

If your issue is with Search results and knowing which column has the search hit, you could place a surface text 'marker' where each column begins and use MS Word's Heading 1 style (or the lowest Heading level you anticipate). Develop your own standard format/wording for the text, with as much detail as you need. When a basic search turns up one of the newspaper accounts, the search hit(s) will display the lowest-level heading containing the result and you'll see your column number noted.

You could also experiment with tagging those 'markers' with Headword milestones and see if that helps with organizing your resource.

JT (alabama24)

If it’s not in the wiki, I assume it’s not possible. I also don’t know why it’s Necessary

David Ames

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1202517#Comment_1202517

If it’s not in the wiki

or can "VolumePageLine" be used?

Question: How does one cite a reference to a newspaper article? Page number would be a must but it would seem that reporting which column would help find the reference quicker. Especially if one adds the line number!

Second question: what data can we put into "VolumePageLine"? Maybe use Volume as the newspaper page? Page as the newspaper column? And line as the line number in the column?

[I have no idea if we could record that level of detail but the words "VolumePageLine" seem to imply that it can hold three data points: Volume number, Page number, and the number of the line on that page. So, if it can use three data points maybe [and I did say maybe] that can be used as page number, column number and column line number.]

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1202518#Comment_1202518

[I have no idea if we could record that level of detail but the words "VolumePageLine" seem to imply that it can hold three data points: Volume number, Page number, and the number of the line on that page. So, if it can use three data points maybe [and I did say maybe] that can be used as page number, column number and column line number.]

They all have a Number format, so the only issue is that they will be reported/listed as Volume, Page, Line.

Headwords would be more natural e.g.

[[@Page:513]]

[[@Headword:Col 1]]

.....

[[@Headword:Col 2]]

Jim Darlack

Thanks for your feedback everyone. I decided to just stick with Page and number the pages using 'Arabic' numbers and the columns using letters, so now I have:

[[@Page:1]] - Page 1 (including the page header that spans all columns)
[[@Page:1ab]] - Page 1(text spanning columns a and b)
[[@Page:1a]] - Page 1, column a
[[@Page:1b]] - Page 1, column b
[[@Page:1c]] - Page 1, column c
[[@Page:1d]] - Page 1, column d
[[@Page:2]] - Page 2
[[@Page:2a]] - Page 2, column a

David Ames

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1202813#Comment_1202813

Thanks for your feedback everyone. I decided to just stick with Page and number the pages using 'Arabic' numbers and the columns using letters

You might want to document your method with some notes at the beginning of the docx document so anyone reading the PBB would know.

Jim Darlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1202816#Comment_1202816

Agreed.