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This notation was conceived to spot vocabulary words, and is a little clunky until you get used to it, but I find it beats scanning entire pages of text or counting each line from the top of a page when counting from the bottom would make more sense.
Examples...
89+4
Fourth line from the top of page 89.
606-5
Five lines from the bottom of page 606. (A minus sign instead of plus indicates
the number of lines counted from the bottom of the indicated page or paragraph.)
138.4+3
138 is the page number.
4 indicates the 4th paragraph which begins on that page. (Basically scan for
the 4th indent, and then count down 3 lines, because in this example...)
3 indicates the 3rd line in the 4th paragraph.
428.0-4
428 means page 428 of course.
0 means the word (or tag, or whatever you seek) is located in the paragraph begun on the preceding
page (i.e. prior to the first indent on p. 428.)
-4 means the 4th line from the end of that paragraph.
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