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===Formatting bulleted chapters===
===Formatting bulleted chapters===


This is a draft of an experimental formatting of Chapter 1, with the intention of offering an eaier-to-read version of the chapter, and based on an observation that the chapter - and the book - have a number of lengthy, complex pargraphs and the appreciation that as space is essentially unlimited, a digital environment is not constrained by the economics of producing fibre-based information habitats such as books
This is a draft of an experimental formatting of Chapter 1, with the intention of offering an easier-to-read version of the chapter, and based on an observation that the chapter - and the book - have a number of lengthy, complex paragraphs and the appreciation that in a digital environment, use of white space is not constrained by the economics of producing fibre-based information habitats such as books


* Paragraph breaks have been relaced with thin horizontal lines: <nowiki>----</nowiki>
* Paragraph breaks have been relaced with thin horizontal lines: <nowiki>----</nowiki>
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* Within paragraphs, sentences are separated by line breaks, and bulleted as seems reasonable
* Within paragraphs, sentences are separated by line breaks, and bulleted as seems reasonable


The bulleting of sentences has been more time consuming than had been anticipated, and the bulleting in this chapter is not yet complete
The bulleting of sentences has been relatively time-consuming. and the bulleting in this chapter is not yet complete


'''Note''': The effect of the re-formatting is greater, imho, with a fixed display width, e.g. see http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/won-1.htm
'''Note''': The effect of the re-formatting / expansion of white space tends to be enhanced with padding and constraints on the display width, e.g. see http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks for full text - with illustrations - and http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/ch-1.htm for a non-wiki html version of Chapter 1

Latest revision as of 14:02, 4 August 2006

Formatting bulleted chapters

This is a draft of an experimental formatting of Chapter 1, with the intention of offering an easier-to-read version of the chapter, and based on an observation that the chapter - and the book - have a number of lengthy, complex paragraphs and the appreciation that in a digital environment, use of white space is not constrained by the economics of producing fibre-based information habitats such as books

  • Paragraph breaks have been relaced with thin horizontal lines: ----
  • Within paragraphs, sentences are separated by line breaks, and bulleted as seems reasonable

The bulleting of sentences has been relatively time-consuming. and the bulleting in this chapter is not yet complete

Note: The effect of the re-formatting / expansion of white space tends to be enhanced with padding and constraints on the display width, e.g. see http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks for full text - with illustrations - and http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/ch-1.htm for a non-wiki html version of Chapter 1