<div dir="ltr">Hi Ken,<br><br>This sounds as good as you can get it without access to the sewing. A couple of suggestions I'd make are give the second pi designation as a superscript "2" and bracket the "1" of the first signed signature since it's inferred, to read:<br>
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</style><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">17<sup>4</sup> </span>chi1 18<sup>4</sup></p>
<br>In case the superscripts don't make it through email: pi[superscript 4] [superscript 2]pi1 [1]-16[superscript 8] 17[superscript 4] chi1 18[superscript 4]<br><br>-Kate<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ken Rockwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.rockwell@utah.edu">ken.rockwell@utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, here I go displaying my inexperience... It'll take some time to get all the variants in signature statements down, so thought I'd try a little public embarrassment and throw out this "odd" one:<br>
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I have a book with 5 preliminary leaves (roman numeral x on last), an unsigned gathering of 8, then the signatures kick in with numeral 2 through 16 in eights; gathering 17 has 5 leaves, and gathering 18 (with heading "Supplement") has 4. [Book is a 2nd edition, so the supplement may have been added with this edition.] The binding is too tight to find the sewing, so I can't tell which leaf in either groups of 5 is the extra.<br>
Here's my stab at a signature statement: pi4 2pi1 1-16⁸ 17⁴ chi1 18⁴<br>
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Did I handle the odd leaves correctly?<br>
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