Pagination ED, 28 October 2013

Status
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Comments are directed to public-digipub-ig@w3.org, but the dpub
page at http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Main_Page states that
public comments are welcome on public-digipub-ig-comment@w3.org
and provides no indication that non-members can post to
public-digipub-ig@w3.org.  Which is correct?


5. Running headers and footers
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There truly is more to running headers and footers than is dreamt
of in the open web platform.  For example (though few outside
aircraft/military applications would aspire to it), the S1000D
specification [1] describes six items and their prescribed
positions in the page footer:

 - Document identifier

 - Issue date

 - Page number

 - Applicability

 - Security marking

 - End of data module indication

The S1000D specification itself [2] manages to also put the
filename of what appears to be its original Word file in the
footer as well, though I can't find anywhere in the specification
for doing that.


8. Tables
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A common requirement for paginated documents is to repeat the
table caption or a variation of the table caption when a table
breaks across a page.  The variations on the table caption can
include repeating the table number and table caption plus text,
such as "(continued)", to indicate it is a continuation or just
the table number plus "(continued)" (or similar) since the
caption (which may be long) has already been seen.

A similar requirement is to place some text, such
as "(continues)", at the foot of a table part when the table
breaks across a page.


Lists
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The current document has sections on figures and tables but lacks
a section on lists.  There is nothing to indicate whether or not
this is a deliberate omission.

Regards,


Tony Graham                                   tgraham@mentea.net
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[1] http://public.s1000d.org/Downloads/Pages/S1000DDownloads.aspx
[2] Under "/S1000D Issue 4.1/Specification/" in the S1000D Issue 4.1
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