David Starner wrote:
A filename for a single-page djvu file MUST follow this pattern:
And really, why is the extra effort worth it? Most of our etexts don't have page numbers to make it make a difference for errata, and for the rare times that someone will be looking for something in the images by page number, it's not hard to search for the right page number manually, just like you would with a book.
Most PG texts don't have page numbers, but those texts don't have scans either. So no problem there. Most new texts that come thru DP have page numbers and also scans. DP scans already are single-page per file. They just have to implement some small code to rename the files while compressing them to djvu. Your assumptions are that only humans need to find the right page in the scans and that this will be a rare task. I don't agree with either of them. I'm just trying to pre-empt problems that may appear down the line once we have a considerable number of page image files posted. Applications may pop up that we don't imagine yet. I don't want to weep over the lost page numbers as we are weeping today over the lost accents. And yes, there already are a few applications today that need a uniform page numbering style: - links to the page images from (generated) html - user reporting of errata - validation of user reported errata - side-by-side readers - scholarly online citation of PG texts -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org