Eugene. (01)
Am preparing for another exam, tomorrow night. Therefore, I have to be
short. (02)
I like to distinguish between two aspects of paragraph numbering. (03)
1. As a quick reference to a paragraph in a text presumed to be
permanent (e.g. Mt 7,1) or to a line as in Rod Welch's SDS). Simple
paragraph numbering (1, 2, 3, &c. will do fine). (04)
2. As a reference to an element in a text that may very well be changed
in the future. In that case we may want to track a couple of things such
as changing wording within an existing paragraph, relocating the
paragraph, inserting a new paragraph. In his "Authorship Provisions in
Augment," Doug offers four "handles" by which a given statement or
graphic or table) may be directly addressed. You know them: (05)
a. Structural statement number, e.g. 3b2. An alternating numbers and
letters indicate in that order ever more subsidiary elements of a
document. In this example, the element may be the second paragraph of a
text under a subhead labeled b, which itself falls under a head labeled
3. (06)
b. A statement identifier, e.g. 012, which identifies the chronological
position of a document's element. Inserting a new paragraph bears as a
consequence that the paragraph numbering appears irregular to one not
familiar with this convention. For example, document elements may be
numbered 01, 02, 03, 06, 04, 05. This indicated a sixth paragraph has
been added and placed between existing paragraphs 03 and 04. The leading
zeros are there to alert us to the fact that we are dealing with
statement identifiers. (07)
c. A statement name, which is a common target for a hyperlink. (08)
What I do not see here is an identification for a paragraph that has
been changed. One might identify that with a hyphen plus a ranking
number, e.g. 3b2-1 would indicate a first change in paragraph 3b2. The
statement identifier would change accordingly. (09)
Given more time for contemplation, one may come up with additional
codes. What about accommodating the tracking of a deleted document
element, or a document element that has been split with parts having
gone to different places in a document. (010)
On a personal note, after some reflection, I am inclined to believe that
the structural statement number is probably the best point of departure
for accommodating future changes in a document. But I admit, I haven't
thought this through very thoroughly. (011)
Henry (012)
a. (013)
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 19:02, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> (First, apologies for not getting a summary out recently. Expect one
> this week. -EEK)
>
> Chris and I are preparing some documents on purple numbers, and we
> were trying to understand why we thought they were important and cool.
> I'm pretty sure I know why they're important. I'm also pretty sure
> they're cool, because many people have told me so. I just don't know
> why.
>
> So, fair members, I thought I would consult with all of you. Why are
> purple numbers cool? Why do you care about them? Why should others
> care about them?
>
> -Eugene
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