Re: virtual pages is it a best practice?

I strongly agree. Moreover, pages are generally used for reference and
quotation purposes, so for me this could be a good practice.

Best

2019-05-16 17:54 GMT+02:00, Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>:
> Interesting idea, and George, your metric is spot-on. When I had my
> publishing services business the definition of a "page" (especially needed
> because manuscript pages are so variable") was 2,000 characters.
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:47 AM George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi EPUB 3 folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> We have brought up the practice of including virtual pages before. The go
>> to page function in titles that have a print equivalent  is fabulous, but
>> what if there is no print version?
>>
>>
>>
>> A quick check of character of documents I have handy shows that there is
>> approximately 2k of characters on a page. I would think that a best
>> practice of placing a page break indicator between block items closest to
>> that 2k count would work well. Of course, this cannot be a requirement,
>> but
>> I wonder about publishing it as a best practice. IMO it would help in
>> figuring out how large a title is.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy GAAD
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>>
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