Sebastien Blondeel wrote:
In many historical books and essays, the author directs the reader to some other such work, page so and so.
If/when PG had set up a way to recognize those and link to them, it will be possible to create links to the right part of the other e-text.
This is not exactly what we were talking about. We were talkin about page images. But the problem is similar. Suppose we post a multi-page djvu, where the filenames of the single-page djvu files it contains are not in sync with the real page numbers. Some scholar will then cite a work like this: See "Foo" by Bar, Page 13 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12345/12345.djvu#19.djvu Note: she links to internal file 19.djvu because this file just happens to contain page 13. This link will break if we ever decide to reorganize the djvu file to reflect the real page numbers. The Right Thing to do is to start so that you wont have to change the filenames even if you later insert cover pages / images scanned with higher resolution / missing pages etc. and even if you have to pull pages (eg. because you learn that they contain recent copyrighted material). Note: knowing DP project managers, some will want to link the page numbers in the html to the page images. So anybody can see how it is done and somebody external will follow. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org