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No page list

seminar and citation use, and how to build one

A page list maps the printed edition's page numbers into the ebook, so a student can be told "turn to page 214" in a seminar and actually get there. Without it, an ebook reader is excluded from a conversation built around print pagination.

The hand-fix

It has two halves. First, the text needs page break markers: an element carrying epub:type="pagebreak" with a title or aria-label giving the printed number, and an id. Second, the navigation document needs a nav with epub:type="page-list" linking to each one.

<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page214" role="doc-pagebreak" aria-label="214"></span>

<nav epub:type="page-list" hidden="hidden">
  <ol><li><a href="chapter-9.xhtml#page214">214</a></li></ol>
</nav>

What Reflow does

Builds the page-list nav from the markers the book already carries, minting ids for labelled markers that lack one. Unlabelled markers are never referenced and never touched. If the book has no print markers at all, no page list is invented, and the report says why: only the print source can supply those numbers.

The metadata that follows

Once a real page list exists, the ONIX record can honestly carry code 19, and dc:source should name the printed edition the numbers came from.