Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Focusing on people
   2. New workflows
   3. What we’ll cover
2. Context
   1. Change and the living Internet
   2. Credibility and scale
   3. Formats and reading contexts
   4. Viewports on paper and devices
   5. UX, UI and user patterns
   6. Accessibility
   7. Further reading
3. Connecting humans and machines
   1. Separating content and design
   2. Basic HTML and CSS
      1. Elements
      2. Stylesheets
      3. Classes
   3. Character encoding and unicode
   4. Naming design features
   5. Document trees
   6. Accuracy and consistency
   7. Further reading
4. Choosing tools
   1. Thank you and goodbye, MS Word
   2. Choosing editing software, online and offline
      1. Text-only editing
      2. Collaborative editing
   3. WYSIWYG versus plain text
   4. Constraints versus creativity
   5. Open software and standards
      1. Open-source software
      2. Open standards
5. Collaboration
   1. Team roles
   2. Version control
      1. Automatic version history
      2. Turn-based version control
6. Building blocks of books
   1. Book pages and web pages
   2. Structuring the book
   3. Double-page spreads
   4. Reading topography
7. Text
   1. Special characters: fonts, unicode glyphs and markup
      1. Helpful and unhelpful fonts
   2. Links and linking
      1. Long, unwieldy links
      2. Links can break
      3. Links in print
   3. Cross references: page numbers and purple numbers
      1. Purple numbers
      2. Creating internal links
   4. Capitalisation
   5. Indexing
   6. Maths
8. Images
   1. Bitmap and vector images
   2. Size, resolution and quality
      1. Pixels and resolution
      2. Image ‘quality’
   3. Color spaces and colour profiles
   4. Text in images
   5. Further reading
9. Interactive elements
   1. Video and audio
      1. Video and audio in print
   2. Slides
   3. Questions
   4. Graphs
   5. Games and applications
10. Data as content
    1. Glossaries and bibliographies
    2. Directories and dictionaries
    3. Manuscripts as spreadsheets
    4. Search indexes