Please answer a book design opinion question (was Re: [lojban] CLL 1.1/ CLL 2.0. What is your opinion in the current situation?)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:31:37PM +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell, On 19/11/2012 20:26:
> >On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:19:45PM +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> >>Robin Lee Powell, On 19/11/2012 18:52:
> >>>Oh, and that the PDF needs to be something we can send to a
> >>>printer to make a book out of, so (in particular) cross
> >>>references need to be page number based (which is why we can't
> >>>just print the HTML, or anything converted from it; I haven't
> >>>found anything that produces page number xrefs from html, much
> >>>as I'd *LOVE* to solve the whole thing that way).
> >>
> >>If the book's subsections are sufficiently short, wouldn't
> >>cross-references to subsections, rather than to page numbers,
> >>suffice? Many academic books do work thus.
> >
> >Well, you've got a copy of the red book, what do you think? :)
> >
> >Can you show me such a book?  I've never seen that.  Maybe
> >something on Amazon where the "look in this book" is working?
> 
> I haven't time to do that. I'd just suggest that since this page
> number issue is an impediment to progress, you set it aside. The
> extra progress you could make by setting it aside outweighs any
> benefit of specific page refs.

OK.  Can other people weigh in here?  If you were reading a
technical book that had no page number based index, wouldn't that
shock you?  Wouldn't you be all like "what a pack of losers"?  I
think I would.

I've been assuming that that's just totally unacceptable, but I'm
willing to be persuaded otherwise.

-Robin

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