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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 serves a dual appointment at University of Wisconsin-Madison: creative services manager at the university’s Division of Information Technology and lecturer in communication topics at the Division of Continuing Studies. Kyle is a regular conference and seminar speaker on digital communication style and method.

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