Version 2.6.2 will include a new front end module called "articles menu" that adds a pagination menu to navigate the articles of a page. Simply include the module in your page layout or article:
Then create a page with several articles on it:
When you open the page in the front end, the article teasers are listed as usual:
Now if you choose a particular article, the new module adds the pagination menu so you can directly jump to every article that is on the page.
Thus, you can split long articles into multiple pages or generate sections of a user manual.