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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I thought we'd decided eons ago that the correct way to do referencing is by section and paragraph numbers?
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Sigh. I certainly didn't decide that, nor do I see any significant number of publishers that have. Not all books can be divided into paragraphs. In fact, most of the print books I've published in the last fifteen years or so have typographic or design elements that don't map well onto paragraphs at all.
I'm interested here in how to allow ebooks and pbooks to coexist for the next 20-30 years or so, without breaking current research models. I don't see why a paginated master view can't satisfy all parties, assuming a compiler that can spit out all the major formats. The consumer can ignore the page markers if he/she chooses, but there's no reason for them not to be there, and available to the reader software.