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Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Sun, 08 November 2020 22:00 UTC

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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:00:41 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
> It would be technically easy to put paragraph numbers in the rendered
> text or PDF, but it would also be ugly and cluttered.

Yes :-) The alternative is to insist on a high enough density of
subheadings so that readers can find their way around a document at least
as well as they could when page numbers imposed an upper limit on the size
of a wall of text, e.g. keep the number of paragraohs in a subsection
within the range of subitizing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing

Tony.
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