> 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
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