On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:39:57PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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.
>