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Jul 2, 2016 at 22:59 comment added JeffE @guifa Bad idea. By default (and following ISO standards), LaTeX typesets all mathematical variables in italics. So at least in communities that use LaTeX, setting the x in italics ("p. x") suggests more strongly that x is a variable—that is, a placeholder—than setting it upright ("p. x").
Jul 2, 2016 at 21:35 comment added user0721090601 If the style guide doesn't otherwise say, you could put the Roman numerals in italics. Many books do that anyways. Plus, because it's italicized, to me, it would stand out more as a "I intentionally put x".
Jul 2, 2016 at 18:35 history edited Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 CC BY-SA 3.0
slight wording improvement for readability
Jan 5, 2015 at 19:02 comment added Jhz832 @ChrisH Yes, roman numbering system is usually used to number pages before the main part of the book. But I did want to cite a sentence in the prelude.
Jan 5, 2015 at 11:09 comment added Chris H @O.R.Mapper has the right idea - besides, if the page number really is "x" you don't have a lot of choice. This should be a rare occurrence anyway as (lower case) roman page numbering is generally used for front matter which doesn't tend to contain anything worth citing (anything in the abstract could be better cited from a more detailed part of the work).
Jan 5, 2015 at 10:39 comment added O. R. Mapper @AnonymousMathematician: I disagree: An x at any place where a number (or a title, or something) is expected inherently makes me think "Someone forgot to look up the exact page and substitute the placeholder in their camera-ready version." as the most plausible interpretation. That said, I am totally in favour of writing "p. x" nonetheless, as a page reference is only irrelevant eye-candy for readers who don't actually look for the page in the source, and readers who do will immediately find out what is meant by x.
Jan 5, 2015 at 9:22 comment added Federico Poloni This suggests an interesting possibility for my next paper: "We refer the reader to [Krusche1999, p. x], where x is the solution of equation (17)".
S Jan 5, 2015 at 5:35 history suggested user18072 CC BY-SA 3.0
Because the title confused me for exactly this reason :)
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Jan 5, 2015 at 1:37 comment added Anonymous Mathematician To me, "p. x" seems more or less as understandable as "p. xi". In isolation, "x" wouldn't look as obviously like a Roman numerical, but after "p." I don't see any other plausible interpretation. So I wouldn't worry about this (but maybe other people would find it weirder than I would).
Jan 5, 2015 at 1:26 comment added Yuichiro Fujiwara Ah, it took me a few seconds to understand this is a problem similar to the 4th subsection of section 10 in APS style, i.e., Sec. XD
Jan 5, 2015 at 0:45 history asked Jhz832 CC BY-SA 3.0