Thanks for your responses!
Here is a set of some samples on different positions:
Code:
[at the beigin of the first line]
SELECTION: The chief beauty of this book lies not, so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulnes
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:101)"
[in the middle of the first line #1]
SELECTION: All that has been done is to colour them; and, for this, no extra charge has been made
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:223)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:309)"
[in the middle of the first line #2]
SELECTION: Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may riv...
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:452)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:579)"
[at the end of the first line]
SELECTION: weight to the lesson that the story teaches.
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:801)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:845)"
[in the middle of the second line]
SELECTION: DON, August, 18
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/8/1:3)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/8/1:18)"
[over two lines]
SELECTION: the story teaches.
LONDON,
POSITION: start="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/6/1/1:827)" end="OEBPS/boat003_preface.xhtml#point(/1/4/2/8/1:7)"
The number after colon seems to be the character offset, but even that is counted strange (cf. [in the middle of the first line #2] or [at the end of the first line] - this may be because of the — sign, but even after replacing them by a "-" the offsets don't match)