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I have always looked at chapter-based pagination as something that would
only be worthwhile in loose-leaf publication, but both your and Bonnie's
comments are well worth thinking about.
Regarding the generation of the XML data:
In a pre-formatting step the wrappers defining conditionality around all
paragraphs, images, tables etc in the XML data for a specific product
platform are checked against a small configuration file which tells if a
condition is true or false for a specific product model within this
product platform.
After that step, the resulting XML data is formatted using XSL-FO and
XEP from RenderX.
> That might be a very compelling reason to use chapter-page numbering.
> Revision wouldn't affect the pagination in other chapters, so
> it would be
> easier for technical support to guide different users if the
> whole manual
> isn't repaginated.
>
> But, it depends how you're generating your output from your XML
> repository.
>
> I do agree with Bonnie's contention about the usefulness of chapter
> numbers. When I frequently use a reference book, I often scan
> headings to
> locate the chapter first if the page numbering is unhelpfully
> page number
> only.
>
> Eric L. Dunn
> Senior Technical Writer
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