Tell me about {L} location numbers
Tell me about {L} location numbers
{L997} At the beginning of paragraphs or lists or in the first cell of each table there is a letter L followed by a number. The 'L' stands for "Location". Each paragraph, list, and table is numbered in order, starting with L1 within brace brackets at the beginning. In the Index of Principal Greek Terms and the Index to the Print Edition, you will find that each location number is followed by a space, then Pg and a number... the page number in the print version of the book, followed in turn occasionally by n and another number... a "note" or "footnote" number.
{L998} Why have location numbers?
{L999} Your ebook reader may show what it calls page numbers. Have you noticed that the count of "pages" changes if you make the printing / font size larger or smaller? These so-called page numbers also differ depending on screen size. Open a book on an iPad, and you get one count of pages. Open the same book on a Kindle Fire, and the page count is quite different. In other words, you can't depend on page numbers to tell someone else where you are in a book. Page numbers lead to confusion when trying to share with someone else.
{L1000} Contrast this with location numbers which do not change. You can share them. What is more, they are in numeric order so that you can fast forward through a book to any location you want. In fact, you can even use the search function of your ebook reader. For example, enter L183 in the box and start a search. You are taken to the right place.