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You think you're making a case about the shortcomings of HTML. You're really just demonstrating how crummy page numbers are as a citation format. If you want
by cxr 3y ago
You think you're making a case about the shortcomings of HTML. You're really just demonstrating how crummy page numbers are as a citation format.
If you want to cite a figure X from chapter Y, then cite figure X from chapter Y.
- itishappy 3y agoWhat if I want to find figure X from chapter Y? What if the chapters are much longer than a page length would be? What if there's only 3 figures in a 100000 word document? These aren't impossible problems. A well formatted index or table of contents gets you most of the way there. But what if we used some sort of immutable reference? We could add new reference locations after some fixed amount of content such that they're never too far away, and we could even print these references at the bottom of each section for ease of use!
- cxr 3y ago> We could add new reference locations after some fixed amount of content such that they're never too far away, and we could even print these references at the bottom of each section for ease of use! How does HTML hinder this?