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Originally Posted by DJHARKAVY
I'm pretty sure that epub page numbers remain fixed, regardless of font size.
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I'm not aware of "epub" page numbers. Amazon may have implemented something like that, but I don't see anything like that in the standard. Obviously you can have hardcoded page numbers in your text, but that seems not to be what you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by elcreative
They do... if font made larger so page no longer fits a single screen then numbering changes to reflect it... say page 400 is enlarged to three and a half screens then numbering becomes 400, 400, 400, 400-401
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I am not seing that. Page numbers are calculated by my PocketBook on the fly, and really refer to the number of screens. If I change the font size, e.g., the number changes accordingly.
But to address the original issue, I still think an automatic technical solution would be the way to go. Here's a wild idea: if you create a hash digest of every paragraph (using, I don't know, MD6 or any of the other current hash algorithms) it would be easy to create a unique referrer to every paragraph in your text (actually, to any paragraph, period).
There are some issues that need to be addressed, of course (an additional linebreak, or a comma added will create a completely different hash), a hash table needs to be created before looking up any references, etc. but having access to the text in electronic form I don't think that would be too much of an issue. In a way it's like using hyperlinks, only the author wouldn't have to provide them at the time of writing.
Of course this is not a human-readable solution for the most part, but I don't see why reference management couldn't be automated, too.