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Originally Posted by Panurge
> 14. don't put pagenumbers inside the text/paragraphs.
For the casual reader, this may not be an important point, but for someone who publishes scholarly texts, which require documentation, it is. The page numbers of the original text do matter, as does the exact text that lies between them.
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You bring up a very valid point that most of us don't think of (me included). Can you suggest a way to handle this without having the page numbers in-line with the text? Most of us would find the visible page numbers too obnoxious.
For XHTML markup, one thing that comes to mind (just off the top of my head) would be to enclose all the text that makes up an original page with a surrounding tag that uses the "id" attribute to hold the page number. This would not display, but could be accessed if needed. Also, by using "id", you could construct a special hyperlinked table of pages that would allow you to jump to specific pages in the ebook. I'll have to try this and see how it works.
Using XHTML, this would work with epub and possibly Mobipocket and other formats based on HTML. Anyone have ideas on other ways to do this, either in XHTML or other formats?