From the launch page (the first page of the article), readers have a few options. The General Introduction explains the hypertextual form of this article, establishes the critical questions that this article sets out to answer, and briefly presents and discusses some of the central terms that we have used to organize our discussion. The History of the Dictionary of Sensibility gives an evolutionary account of the Dictionary, from the early planning stages to the afterlife of the project. Additionally, the launch page has a link to the Dictionary itself. All three of these paths are recommended in order to help readers get their bearings before they proceed to the substance of the article.
The substance of the article is presented in a hypertext format. When readers click the "Substance of this Article: Keyterms" button they will be taken to a list of critical terms. Each of these terms (when clicked) will lead readers to a series of short vignettes, all of which bear in one way or another on the term that was selected. Each vignette, in turn, contains its own clickable list of relevant critical terms, so that from any given vignette readers do not need to return to the term they started with, but can instead proceed to a new term if they wish. Readers will constantly be moving back and forth between term-lists (general) and vignettes (specific). After a short time, readers will be able to recognize the vignettes they have already encountered. The rationale behind our use of this hypertext format is explained in detail in the General Introduction.
The diagram below illustrates the relations between the pages that make up this article:
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