> Setting aside the question of whether page citations themselves are an > outmoded mechanism,
These are legal documents, used by lawyers and judges in and outside of the courtroom. During a court case, it is critical that someone can quickly cite a passage as 'paragraph 3, page 13'. So there needs to be this direct correlation with a printed page for that purpose. > I see no reason why you couldn't break your > content up into blocks and then maintain an index of which blocks > represent which pages in which documents. Offhand, I know of no > packaged CMS that does this. Looks like PDF may be the solution... > It raises some other questions - are you going to allow people to edit > the content online and backfill to some print publication while > maintaining a page numbering scheme, or are they read-only from the > CMS perspective? The former would be much more difficult, but not > impossible. Read only. Again, another vote for PDF probably. -Darrel -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
