<div dir="ltr">Thanks Richard!<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:01 AM Noble, Richard <<a href="mailto:richard_noble@brown.edu">richard_noble@brown.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">With no precise rule to cite--this being a problem peculiar to our cataloging environment--I'd say the double bracketing is much to be preferred. With only single brackets one would have to infer that the gathering is signed, since the whole string '[par.]' (not just 'par.') represents, by our system, the paragraph symbol as a printed signature. Double bracketing is stylistically ugly, but there's nothing else for it. Even so it would be a good idea to include the note, to reassure a reader that the formula is meant to be interpreted thus; but the formula should be able to stand alone without the note.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</font></div><div><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">></span></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:05 PM Jennifer Dunlap <<a href="mailto:jrdunlap7@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrdunlap7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm working on a signature statement and have encountered something I've never run into before: an unsigned gathering, which can be inferred as [par.] (see below). My gut tells me to use double square brackets, but I could find no examples of this situation in Bowers, Gaskell, DCRM-B, or in the DCRM-L archives. I am hoping the collective wisdom may have some best practices guidance. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Gathering 1 is unsigned, gatherings 2 and 3 are signed 2
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%81%8B" title="⁋" target="_blank">⁋</a> and 3
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%81%8B" title="⁋" target="_blank">⁋</a>. Obviously we can infer the first gathering as [par.]. Would it be appropriate in this instance to use a second set of square brackets to designate the first gathering as unsigned:</div><div><br></div><div>Signatures: [[par.]]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]² A-2B⁴ 2C⁶.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Or to use a single set of brackets and add a note that the first gathering is unsigned? <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]² ... ; gathering [par.] is unsigned. (alternatively: first gathering unsigned).<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The book in question is: <br></div><div>Alcazar y Zuñiga, Melchor de. <i>Arte de esquadronar, y exercicios de la infanteria</i> (1703)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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