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Originally Posted by NatCh
You're right, we've kinda evolved two parallel discussions, how to do it presently as an add on, and how it might best be done as a considered system.  |
That was my intent. How can we deal with this now and how could it be done better in the future? If we can get the standards setting folks (IDPF and others) thinking about these issues now, perhaps it won't be too terribly long before we have a better, standard way to do these things.
Ebooks need to grow in incapability beyond just recreational reading. PDF is being used now, because it is essentially a paper representation of what we already have. We need other solutions for use with reflowable formats.
Since it seems we all agree that paragraph numbers are probably the best we can do with today's reflowable ebook formats, we still have the question of how to use them without making them too obnoxious and in-your-face to the average reader.