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javascript:styles='body%20{%20/*%20this%20is%20the%20element%20that%20will%20reset%20the%20numbers%20*/%20counter-reset:%20paragraphs%200;%20/*%20identifier%20&%20starting%20number%20*/%20}%20p:before%20{/*%20the%20element%20to%20receive%20the%20numbering%20*/%20counter-increment:%20paragraphs%201;%20/*%20identifier%20and%20increment%20value%20*/%20content:%20counter(paragraphs,%20decimal)%20".%20";%20/*%20identifier,%20number%20type,%20and%20what%20follows%20the%20numbering%20*/%20}';%20newSS%20=%20document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel%20=%20'stylesheet';%20newSS.href%20=%20'data:text/css,'%20+%20escape(styles);%20document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(newSS);%20void%200

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Their importance will increase as the volume of non-paged literature increases. Style guides recommend using the paragraph in citations when possible. I'd like to collect links to software that provides paragraph counts for web documents and for e-reader documents. I'd also like to write some tools.

So far the only online documentation I can find about navigating within ebook documents is on Kindle's "locations." From what I read they amount to 128 bytes of data. It doesn't matter whether these bytes display on the page. So these are very arbitrary chunks, and their logical is not readily discernible or readable the way a section's, subsection's or paragraph's is.

I did find a bookmarklet for counting DOM elements and modified to provide paragraph counts (gist) . It is also possible to provide paragraph numbering with CSS (cribbed from [stackoverflow article](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6244591/css-styled-paragraphs-with-paragraph-numbering-and-sideno

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#!/usr/bin/awk -e { if (/^```/) { i++; next } if ( i % 2 == 1) { print } }
# mdlp - agnostic literate programming for github flavored markdown.
# I release this script into the public domain.
# Rich Traube, Fri Feb 15 09:07:27 EST 2013

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#! /bin/bash
# Use mustache and your favorite markup to create static html.
# Use a markup that does standard read/write or change script.
FILE=$1
MARKUP=/usr/local/bin/markdown
echo "{{content}}" > mustache.tmp
mustache $FILE mustache.tmp | $MARKUP > content.tmp
sed -n '1,/^content: *|/  p' $FILE > yml.tmp
cat content.tmp | awk '{ print "  " $0 }' >> yml.tmp
echo "---" >> yml.tmp