Numbering systems

A numbering system gives each folio of a catalogued manuscript its label, such as f.12r, p.23 or b4. Pangur uses that label wherever it names the folio: in the catalogue, in the reader and the transcription desk, and in citations. You set numbering on the Number stage of a manuscript's ingestion desk, which opens from Import & arrange photographs… on the manuscript's page in the catalogue.

Numbering works on the folios as they stand in the Arrange stage, in that order. Each entry there is one numbered unit however many photographs it holds, so a front-lit and a back-lit shot of the same side share one label. If nothing has been arranged yet, the Number stage asks you to arrange the photographs into leaves first.

PresetsCopy Anchor Link

How is this manuscript numbered? offers three presets. Each covers the whole manuscript with a single run, which you can then refine with Adjust….

The labels Pangur produces have no space after the prefix ("f.1r"). If you want a space, put it in the run's Prefix.

Several systems at onceCopy Anchor Link

A manuscript can carry more than one numbering at the same time, for example an early modern foliation alongside a modern pagination, or a foliation alongside the printer's signatures. Add another system (or Add a second system in the editor) adds one. Each system has a name, and Remove system removes it.

The first system supplies the label Pangur displays. Every system's label is stored for each folio as well, so a folio can be cited by whichever numbering a reader prefers.

RunsCopy Anchor Link

A system is made of one or more runs. Each run covers a continuous stretch of folios and says how that stretch is labelled. Runs exist because manuscripts are rarely numbered evenly: the front matter may be in lower-case Roman numerals and the body in Arabic, the flyleaves may carry no number at all, and an inserted slip should not take a number from the sequence. Add a run adds one and Remove this run removes one, and a system always keeps at least one run.

The four counting forms produce units differently. Folios give each number two units, a recto and then a verso. Pages and Leaves give one number to each unit, and leaves carry no side. Quire signatures give a letter to each quire and a number to each leaf within it, and after z the letters double (aa, bb and so on). Pangur uses all 26 letters, so if your book's signatures skip letters such as j, u or w, you will need to number those quires with a separate run.

An unnumbered or insert run that covers one folio gives it the label exactly as typed. One that covers several folios numbers them, so two flyleaves become flyleaf 1 and flyleaf 2 and can be told apart in a citation.

Roman numerals have no zero, so a run that starts at 0 shows that folio's number in Arabic.

Previewing and applyingCopy Anchor Link

How the leaves would read shows the labels the system would produce without saving anything. Apply numbering saves them.

Pangur refuses a system whose runs overlap, run past the last folio, or end before they start, and its message names the folio at fault. Folios that no run covers are allowed and simply get no label. A manuscript that is only part-way through being numbered is a normal state, and the Number stage marks such folios as unnumbered, with a reminder that you can pin a label from Arrange or apply a system.

When the labels change, Pangur updates the folio labels used by the manuscript's transcriptions and by any arrangement that refers to its leaves.

Pinned labelsCopy Anchor Link

A label pinned by hand always wins over the numbering system. You pin one in the Arrange stage with Label… on a folio, and leaving the field blank returns the folio to the system's label. Pinned folios are marked Pinned by hand. Pinning is the right tool for a scribe's error in the manuscript's own foliation, where the catalogue should record what is actually written on the leaf.

Suggestions from transcriptionCopy Anchor Link

When a transcription reads a folio number on the leaf that differs from the catalogue's label, the transcription desk shows the difference, for example by reporting that the reader found the leaf labelled "f.13r" while the catalogue says "f.12r". Use this pins the label that was read and Dismiss ignores it. Pangur applies such a suggestion only when you choose it. See Transcribe a manuscript.

Who can change numberingCopy Anchor Link

Previewing numbering saves nothing, so anyone who can read the project can do it. In an organisation's project (a feature that is not offered on every account), members with the viewer role cannot apply numbering or pin labels. The command line and the MCP tools have no commands for numbering.