On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Robert Cicconetti <grythumn@gmail.com> wrote:
> The simplest way to do a cite would be along the lines of 'The book of so
> and so' by 'Mouse, Antony'. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg on 10 Oct 2020,
> etext #50000, HTML format, characters 45,123-45,293.

I neither know how to find those characters nor locate those
characters. In fact, that's not even well-defined; is that a grapheme
count, or a Unicode code-point count (which is not invariant under
normalization)? What about multiple spaces that are merged as one?
Publishers have historically frequently kept page numbers the same
(not for scholars, but because it was cheaper to make a fix if you
didn't have to reset anything other than that page), but anything we
do is going to change the character count.