David Starner wrote:
It's not a matter of code; it's a matter of human effort for this on every project. Most of my projects can't be described as page number + offset; if nothing else, illustrations aren't numbered in with the rest of the book.
Of course, if illustrations are stored out-of-sequence, they will have to be put into sequence manually. But this happens to be the case no matter which numbering scheme you use.
Computers will have a hard time using page numbers considering how inconsistent they are.
I guess that 95 % of all books fit my proposed scheme. There will always be the one book that can't be handled automatically. But then, with a little extra effort you can fix it up manually.
- user reporting of errata - validation of user reported errata
Flip through the pages.
So you are sitting all day before this machine that can do a lot of work for you and you still prefer to do the work by hand? If there is an error reported on page 634 I don't want to "flip through the pages", I want the right page to open in the first time.
And the autoredirect code will break the link. Recently, I linked to http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12345/images/gothic.png in an email message, and it refused to load for some of my recipients.
And rightfully so. Deep linking to images is not permitted. This is documented at: http://www.gutenberg.org/howto-link -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org