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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 28.10.2020 um 04:16 schrieb Michael StJohns:
> On 10/27/2020 10:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>   If you want something more precise than section numbers, the only
>> portable one I can envisage is paragraph numbers. That has a good
>> chance of working across all formats.
>
> I like that as a permanent reference value - its obviously a stable
> number for any given document and easily tracked or created from the
> source/canonical document.
>
> Maybe we provide that as a fixed reference in a TOC for a particular
> paginated version along with the option to have a second value
> indicating the local page number for that version (Cake and eat it
> too...?)  E.g.:
>
> 2.3. Arguments Against Page Numbers ........... L25 (pg 4)
> 2.3.1 Stare Decisis ........................... L28 (pg 4)
>
> I guess you could also automatically generate a per-paragraph anchor for
> HTML documents.

Yes. It is done already.

> Note:  I'm actually fine with no page numbers, but I do see the
> arguments for them.  I kill a lot of trees marking up documents, just
> because its easier to spread out the pages and see the relationships
> between the sections and text and page numbers can be useful for
> collation at least.

Yes. Which version do you print? HTML? PDF? TXT?

Best regards, Julian
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