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Originally Posted by llasram
That's interesting. So source -> PDF, PDF -> page-numbers, source + page-numbers -> reflowable formats. I don't think this would be difficult at all -- let alone a 500+ hour project -- unless you were tying your arm behind your back by requiring this not make use of any existing tools.
Ok, so you want a single location-reference mechanism which operates across print and e-book editions? That is, allows one to find the cited location equally well in both a p- and e-book edition of the work in question? And the problem with just either embedding paragraph number in p-books or page-number in e-books is that they're distracting?
It sounds like the solution here would be an e-book format which separates style from content and allows the user to select among different stylesheets (like XHTML+CSS). The content would contain the page-boundary markup, but it would be undisplayed in the normal stylesheet. The user could then select an alternative stylesheet which would show the p-book-corresponding page numbers.
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no i think a better solution (at least a more elegant one) is:
- if a book has only a pbook version refer to it by page number
- if a book has an ebook version refer to it by paragraph number
All thats needed for this is to have reader software tht can overlay paragraph numbers