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Legislation has similar layout & typography.

Picking a bill at random... CA State Senate 2021-22 SB-54

Here's the human readable version, with changes inlined (a nice touch). https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Here's the same in the official format. Note the line numbers in the left margin. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_...

As a noob, I'm not crazy about monospace, huge margins, and single column.

But it's a terrific UX for paper-bound parliamentary processes predating digital media. Similar to law books, the page and line numbers allow unambiguous content addressing.

Do we even have a digital standard? Purple numbers? https://communitywiki.org/wiki/PurpleNumbers XPath expressions or CSS selectors?



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