pagination
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Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Pagination in word processing, desktop publishing, and digital typesetting
- Pagination in print
- Pagination in electronic display
- In web browsers
- In Database
- Presentation vs. content
- See also
- References
Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.
In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced foliation, which numbered only the front sides of folios.
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