A Generic Article

With an Interesting Subtitle

And additional intriguing aspects
worth noting here

Guy Smiley

Sue Doe Nim

A memorable epigraph goes here
using preformatted text — 
if it's in	
		verse.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Journey Begins
• Chapter Two: The Journey Continues
  • Section A
  • Section B
    • A finer division
    • Another fine division
  • Section C
• Chapter Three: The End in Sight
• End Notes (book)
• End Notes (article)

Preface

This is the preface. Notice that the up-arrow image width= and height= parameters are specificed. The img's href takes you to the table of contents. The href associated with the img at the table of contents takes you to the top of the page.

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Some authors like to "sign" their prefaces, intros, etc., with a little tagline, like this:

Introduction

This is the introduction. This is the introduction. This is the introduction. This is the introduction. This is the introduction.

And now, here's a quoted prose passage from a sutta. Now that it uses a different font from the previous excerpt:

And this is a quoted sutta verse:

Like all sutta verses,
it uses preformatted text
to give us better control over
		indents.
and vertical


			space.

Notice how the sutta citations appear in different places on the page, depending on whether the passage is prose or verse. And now we've reached the end of the introduction.

Chapter One
The Journey Begins

This is a major division of the work — say, a chapter. Each major division is bounded by full-width horizontal rules. Again, note that the little up-arrow takes you to the TOC, not to the top of the page.

Chapter Two
The Journey Continues

This chapter is more complex, with deeper layers of organization.

Section A

This section is bounded by two partial-width horizontal rules ("minibar"). Note that the href on its up-arrow takes you to the beginning of this chapter. This illustrates my overall concept of navigational links: wherever you are, you should be able to click your way back (or "up" or "out") one level at a time. This helps the user stay oriented.

Section B

This is a more complex section, with further subdivisions.

1. A finer division

When we start getting down to this level, we drop the navigational arrows, as it gets too fussy otherwise. And not every section is listed in the TOC. Use your discretion.

Notice that we don't set off this section with a horizontal rule. Too many rules make life difficult. Now let's dig down into deeper sections.

a. First point

Now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty. 1 Dividing a complex document into sections, subsections, sub-subsections, etc., can be useful. If overused, however, obsessive sub-dividing can be visually fragmenting and downright annoying. Not everyone is a lawyer or engineer. Not everyone — whether author or reader — likes to have his thoughts hierarchically regimented this way. So use it with discretion.

b. Second point

In this template I've numbered and lettered each section, sub-section, etc., for clarity. But in a real book or article, you'd rarely want to be so obsessively organized. I've also labeled the anchors in this template so as to reveal the hierarchy. Again, in the real world you'd probably give the anchors names with more transparent meaning.

2. Another fine division

a. First point

Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here. I'll get you, my pretty — and your little dog, too! Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here.

b. Second point

Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Imagine some uplifting text here. Imagine some uplifting text here.

Section C

More text goes here. Twas brillig. Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all our woe. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

Chapter Three
The End in Sight

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