indexing, footnoting, glossary-making.... what do you call this collection of activities? It's not quite writing or editing
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Most online writing actually falls into these kinds of buckets, even if it has the appearance of regular writing
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Ribbonfarm for the first 10 years was regular writing except online, but now it's switched slowly to indexing, footnoting and glossary-making, except mostly self-referentially rather than relative to the web or culture at large.
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We called them long document features. Then on the ribbon we labeled them all references. Publishers call most of this front matter and back matter.
That’s a tool answer or label not precisely what you asked.
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