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Stuart: that's basically what I wound up doing. I didn't format it as a side-bar, because I'm not sure how to do so in Word. I've got a paragraph, maybe 2 short ones, each on HTML, XHTML (mostly how it differs from straight HTML and why that's important) and CSS, and maybe 3 paragraphs on different ebook viewing hardware. My introduction is 3.5 pages long, which for a 40 page document I don't think is too excessive. I hope.
We'll see what my teacher's comments are on my alpha draft by next week.
I really appreciate everyone on this list, and their patience with me!
-becca
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>From: Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
>To: Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 1:18 AM
>Subject: Re: Penguins?
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>Hi Becca -
>
>Gene said:
>> If time and budget permits, I would create the content. For
>> documents being delivered in online formats, you can make it
>> accessible by links. For printed documents, you can use sidebars
>> readers can ignore if they don't need the extra information.
>
>I like this better than the suggestion to put the information in an appendix, which would work better for dry, formal, technical information. You want to flag this information as not necessary, but maybe interesting, maybe useful. Sidebars are excellent for that.
>
>Each sidebar should be just long enough to answer the basic questions: What is it? Why is it relevant to my ebook? Where can I find out more?
>
>For XHTML, the answer to 'why is it relevant' could be that it might help troubleshoot and fix problems. For CSS, you might say that knowing CSS would enable them to change the default layout or branding.
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