On 10/27/2020 10:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
If you want something more precise than section numbers, the only portable one I can envisage is paragraph numbers. That has a good chance of working across all formats.
I like that as a permanent reference value - its obviously a stable
number for any given document and easily tracked or created from the
source/canonical document.
Maybe we provide that as a fixed reference in a TOC for a particular
paginated version along with the option to have a second value
indicating the local page number for that version (Cake and eat it
too...?) E.g.:
2.3. Arguments Against Page Numbers ........... L25 (pg 4)
2.3.1 Stare Decisis ........................... L28 (pg 4)
I guess you could also automatically generate a per-paragraph anchor for
HTML documents.
Note: I'm actually fine with no page numbers, but I do see the
arguments for them. I kill a lot of trees marking up documents, just
because its easier to spread out the pages and see the relationships
between the sections and text and page numbers can be useful for
collation at least.
Later, Mike
