Darrel Austin wrote: > > 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'.
But you couldn't make this kind of reference in another document. What happens if somebody adds 2 pages of text to page 2? Your reference will be wrong, unless you add a document revision to your description like 'paragraph 3, page 13 of [Document] revision 12 of Jan. 12, 1998' Or, if this is just a temporary, per-case basis, you could just as easily refer to the pages of an HTML printout the same way, couldn't you? Of course, if you want to correlate both print and web, and at any point in time, nothing beats the DoD practice of numbering EVERY paragraph. "Please refer to paragraph 3.4.2.1.1.2.4.7" :-) -- Mark Thomas |_| Internet Systems Architect -+- User Technology Associates, Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /-\ -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
