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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
In ebooks, "Real Page Numbers" (RPNs) are a pain and aren't as helpful as they seem...
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I hope you don't mind if I'm not quoting and responding to the entire post. I'm all in favor of being complete, but legibility is also a concern.
First of all, thanks for your extensive reply.
Second, I'm not at all interested in having parity between book page numbers and e-book page numbers - RPNs as you call them. I have tried implementing such things from time to time, but have found reader implementation spotty, and can see little added value for either reader or publisher.
You mention some alternatives to the steps I have used; I will investigate them further when I have occasion to do so - it's always good to have multiple paths home
As the rest of this project consists of indesign files, and I generally don't export those to epub page-by-page, I was considering working from the PDFs that indesign outputs. Converting them to word docs with acrobat, and then exporting those to epub using oowriter seems the way to go to easily get the page numbers. It remains a hassle to clean all the cruft out, though.
I's welcome a way to do things more easily through indesign, perhaps using the method you mention where each page gets a special character which Sigil can replace with page-break tags, and then to use the Sigil plugin for serialized ids you mention.
As I never use indesign for anything except making epub exports, I would welcome some input as to how to go about this in indesign. It's not my favorite program, although my limited experiences with quark have managed to knock the adobe product off the utmost bottom rank.