it’s been some weeks since i looked at this trhead….just an answer to ashrechu yisroel, concerning the shas. First of all- the vilna shas is a latecomer to printed shasim. The firsat ones were printed in the late 1400’s (secular date)and were printed primarily in italy. (defus venezia is well known). there actually were different paginations but I think that the pagination stretd in that time. I am not aware that there were any gedolim who gave their input in this. there is a wonderful book called,”the printing of the talmud” (there are some other books too) that explains the historical context of printing the gemoror.
For the sake of memory, the pagination was accpeted as it was in the early days.for your information- even the counting of “kapitels” (chapters) is also not of Jewish origin. It was accepted around the 1200’s so that everyone could know where to find things.