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hobnail · 11-12-2020, 04:18 PM

Addendum to my long-winded response above. On an entirely personal preference I think that using the text word for a chapter number is more "friendly" or something compared to using the digit; in other words One is better than 1. Using One also works better when axing the word Chapter. Sigil has a chapter title plugin that does this for me.

And back when I was a worker bee in IT I had a more experienced coworker repeat the saying that numbers (digits; data type integer) should only be used in software when they're being used for arithmetic. In databases you'd often see the primary key being digits when better would have been some random string, e.g. a UUID.

11-12-2020, 04:18 PM	#43
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,589 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	Addendum to my long-winded response above. On an entirely personal preference I think that using the text word for a chapter number is more "friendly" or something compared to using the digit; in other words One is better than 1. Using One also works better when axing the word Chapter. Sigil has a chapter title plugin that does this for me. And back when I was a worker bee in IT I had a more experienced coworker repeat the saying that numbers (digits; data type integer) should only be used in software when they're being used for arithmetic. In databases you'd often see the primary key being digits when better would have been some random string, e.g. a UUID. Last edited by hobnail; 11-12-2020 at 04:22 PM.