Re: Hypertext links -- how best to make these useful

[Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Fiona Hanington
<fiona -dot- hanington -at- ericsson -dot- com> wrote:
> Imagine you have this sentence:
>
> "After you <link>defragment the disk</link>, ...."


Don't feel like you need to stay with your current structure.
Sometimes revising how you've written something makes it easier.  For
example, if you used a structure like the following, with
appropriately descriptive headings, it should be clear where your
links lead.

Prerequisites
- [Link - Installing the widget]
- [Link - Configuring the widget]

To calibrate the widget, complete the following steps:
Step 1
Step 2
etc.

After you have calibrated the widget you must next [Link - Initialize
the widget] before you can [Link - Use the widget].


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