By: Mark Baker
@Joe, I agree that there is a place for both text-context (and therefore inline) links, and topic-context links (which could be anywhere, including inline). Not sure if “tangential” is the the...
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@Steve, I certainly agree that the question of whether you should link and what you should link to are prior to, and thus more important than, the question of where the link should be located. But I...
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@Mark, authors can certainly become comfortable with not checking every output or every link destination, once they understand the benefits. What they do need, though, is a way to reliably input the...
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Mark, What a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis. I love the way you always question accepted “wisdom,” combining research with common sense and an open, inquiring mind. (“Before information...
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P.P.S. I love your title so much, in fact, that I’ve just added a reference to it in my poem “Your Words Come Alive With a Hint of Music.”...
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@Joe — Many of the things you might want to link on already have canonical names, so you don’t necessarily have to create a canonical list yourself. There is certainly an upside to validating and...
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@Marcia — What is conventional wisdom for except to question? Seriously, one of the problems with received wisdom is that it tends to get generalized far beyond the results of the original research,...
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