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Gutenberg the entrepreneur

Image Gutenberg page beside illuminated page

On the left is a page from a Gutenberg Bible, c 1460; on the right, the same passage in an earlier, hand-copied, illuminated medieval manuscript. “If you could meet …

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In the year 200: no chunking, no cueing

Image Papyrus 46

Behold Papyrus 46—or P46 as the experts call it—a Greek manuscript penned around 200 AD containing a portion of the New Testament with almost no chunking or cueing. Actually, …

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Inside

  • Don’t bother with all those title case exceptions
  • Prefer narrative structure to the inverted pyramid
  • Embrace the ubiquitous ‘Layer Cake Layout’

Outside

Who

Kyle HendersonKyle Henderson has been making digital documents for more than 20 years. He’s the creative services manager at UW‑Madison’s Division of Information Technology. He also teaches web classes at Madison College and helped develop its Basic Web Certificate. Kyle is a regular conference and seminar speaker on digital-communication style and method.

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