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From:
Siegel Anno
Date:
October 31, 2008 09:42
Subject:
Re: PATCH: source quotes corrected and attributed
Message ID:
EA5803AA-CD23-4F0A-82EE-1326D9D2F7AE@mac.com

On 31.10.2008, at 07:15, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> {
>     Sorry to be so late getting back.  I wrote this >12h ago,
>     but the local power company decided to cut things up and
>     drive me out of my home for a goodly while if I wanted
>     any light.
> }
>
>> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> writes:
>
>>>  *      [p.476 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/iv: "Treebeard"]
>
>> Since you use page numbers, shouldn't there be a reference
>> to the edition/print/publisher a.s.o. somewhere?
>
> That's a good question, Johan.  I thought about it, too.
>
> But I don't know the right answer.

Specify two fixed points, as in

     A long-expected Party ... p   33
     The Grey Havens ......... p 1059

Use linear interpolation to locate a place in another edition :)

I'm only half joking.  The method works quite well (even across  
translations).

Anno

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