I was going to weigh in on the topic myself, but Gary said most of what
I would have. So: (01)
+1 (02)
On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 07:47 America/Chicago, Garold (Gary) L.
Johnson wrote: (03)
> Eugene,
>
> I see the following aspects to purple numbers:
>
> 1> They provide paragraph level addressability from other documents.
> The
> importance of this is difficult to grasp until you have done it for a
> while.
> 2> They are human readable. When I print a document with its base URL,
> I can
> construct a link directly to any paragraph. The numbers are
> unobtrusive and
> provide a way to refer to the paragraphs when working from hard copy.
> 3> The node ids are immutable. The identification of a paragraph
> doesn't
> change. For documents where the editing is moderate, this means that
> any
> external human reference remains unchanged.
>
> If the formal documents that I encounter were all purple numbered,
> comments
> and notes would be far easier to manage. (04)
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