Yesterday I had an interesting session chatting with a potential author for a commentary in HBC_. During the conversation it became more and more clear that today there is no longer much need to allow most authors to write in their wordprocessor. Biblical scholars on the whole are becoming used to web publishing through "learning management systems" like Moodle, or even their personal blogs. So, rather than complex semi-codes to allow wordprocessor docs to be converted, they need straightforward instructions for writing in a simple HTML editor like KompoZer (or KompoZer Portable).

The result is that I have updated the general manual and stylesheet: Writing for Hypertext Bible Commentary - which starts from the concept of a "hypertext" commentary and moves on to the details of format and working of the HBC_ series. I have added Using KompoZer to prepare HBC_ to explain how to do it in practice. Both can be accessed from the project opening page.

PS: I forgot to say, my reason for posting this here is to encourage you to look at one or both of these documents and make any comments that could help refine or improve them. If you would rather email than comment here please send to tim@carey.ac.nz