Tutorials

Tutorials for academic publishing on the web.

Practical, working guides to the small problems academics keep running into when they try to put scholarly work on the web — citation typography, the Word-to-HTML conversion problem, and document capture for research.

• The MS Word to Web Page Tutorial→

  An academic's guide to quick web-page construction. How to take a Word document containing footnotes, tables, and academic apparatus and produce a clean HTML version without breaking the citation format.

• Scholarship on the Web→

  A working series on the practical problem of citation in web typography — how to format footnotes, sidenotes, endnotes, and reference apparatus in HTML and CSS in a way that preserves academic readability.

• Cameras→

  Notes on document-capture cameras for academic research — what to look for in an archive-day camera, the lighting and stand setup that makes the images actually usable, and the workflow from raw capture through OCR.