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Originally Posted by weatherman
When you cite something in an academic paper, you don't cite the exact "position," you cite the page.
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You don't cite Shakespeare or Bible verses by the page, you cite by position. We already have a cite format for "reflowable text" (albeit aimed at verse, not prose). We came up with citations for literature many decades ago when every typesetter would repaginate a book to create their own edition. It doesn't take that much effort to change from [Act, Scene, Line] to [Act, Scene, Sentence], or from [Book, Chapter, Line] to [Book, Chapter, Sentence] ...
Something along the lines of [Chapter, Paragraph, Sentence] should be perfectly fine for anything other than
Finnegan's Wake ...