Comment by mercacona

2 hours ago

NUMBERED PARAGRAPHS, YESSSS! Seriously, once page numbers have become optional, electronic editions of books (monographs, essays, and academic texts) need to number the paragraphs so we can keep references working. I’m fed up with referencing the entire text or specific chapters.

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skrebbel  1 hour ago

I love how excited you are about this and it's rubbing off on me.

  • lynndotpy  35 minutes ago

    I love numbered paragraphs, but this is the standard for religious texts, no? Famously so for centuries?

    I love it when old stuffy institutions are on the cutting-edge of clarity of communication as much as anyone else. (The SEC with its "HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH" report where nearly each section title was a complete sentence, making the Table of Contents also serve as a summary, got me very very excited).

    I would welcome, numbered paragraphs _and_, an HTML standard, and full-sentence-section-titles in the world of academia.