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Old 11-06-2007, 04:56 PM   #21
NatCh
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Originally Posted by jbenny View Post
But, do we want to be tied to some paper-based standard of reference for ebooks? There should be some standard way of doing this without having to send the human reader off elsewhere to find another copy of the same work. Also, this would entail the creation and maintenance of two different copies, just for one ebook.
I was thinking of something more along the lines of:
  1. copy text into Word (or whatever)
  2. set page size as A4
  3. set margins as 2.5 cm all around
  4. set font as Arial 10 pt
  5. find your passage (text search or whatever)
  6. take your reference from here

Or even better:
  1. select passage with stylus
  2. click the "standard reference" button/menu item
  3. use the reference the cleverly programmed reading software calculates for you based on the "standard" page size and format
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