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Originally Posted by GregS
I am looking at the .epub documents at the moment.
Can anyone with experience, save me a lot of searching by telling me if the following is possible:
To have rendered in the margin an element ID number for referencing paragraphs and in plays, lines?
ie.
1.122
Chapter 1 paragraph 122
Book 2 Section 3 Chapter 22 paragraph 45
2.3.22.45
CSS can do it but will reader software be able to?
Being in one of the shades of eink grey would help as well (rather than black).
It would be nice to have a standard reference system.
It is possible to give each edition a World Unique ID which when combined with relative reference would give an absolute and unambiguous reference.
Any comment would be welcome.
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As to the numbering of paragraphs and such, if you will give me an example of the CSS that you use to do this, I will test it. However, it may not be possible the way you are doing it now, if at all. The epub spec doesn't require that everything in CSS 2.0 be supported. Also, some supported XHTML and CSS statements are allowed to be rendered differently by the reader software/hardware. We have already discussed similar issues regarding footnotes in an epub.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with the rest of your question about a World Unique ID. Please elaborate.