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Little.Egret · 02-24-2012, 11:08 AM

The kind of book being discussed has footnotes so "the paragraph with footnote 103" works and it works both from and to a printed edition. This depends on footnote or reference style but "the section after "Turing 1948a" also works

Legal texts often use paragraph numbers 12.16.02 - the style dates from when updates replaced pages and whole chapters so the page number was useless.

And if the professor wasn't a Luddite he could arrange to distribute electronic book marks.

PDFs of course have actual page numbers.

02-24-2012, 11:08 AM	#24
Little.Egret Wizard Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7"	The kind of book being discussed has footnotes so "the paragraph with footnote 103" works and it works both from and to a printed edition. This depends on footnote or reference style but "the section after "Turing 1948a" also works Legal texts often use paragraph numbers 12.16.02 - the style dates from when updates replaced pages and whole chapters so the page number was useless. And if the professor wasn't a Luddite he could arrange to distribute electronic book marks. PDFs of course have actual page numbers.