{"id":11,"date":"2015-09-25T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/?p=11"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:23:39","slug":"ecfr-0-1-2-we-indent-so-you-can-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/2015\/09\/25\/ecfr-0-1-2-we-indent-so-you-can-read\/","title":{"rendered":"eCFR 0.1.2 – We indent… so you can read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the littlest features have the biggest impact.<\/p>\n

Some small tweak can vastly enhance the user experience.<\/p>\n

Consider, for example, a small but powerful technology:<\/p>\n

the indent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why do we indent the eCFR?<\/p>\n

Hey, the government<\/em> doesn\u2019t indent their version?<\/p>\n

Why do we?<\/p>\n

There are reasons.<\/p>\n

In a very complex document, indents help you<\/p>\n

read better;<\/p>\n

see better;<\/p>\n

understand<\/em> better.<\/p>\n

Indents<\/p>\n

guide the eye<\/p>\n

make visible<\/p>\n

the shape of the ideas<\/p>\n

and the structure<\/p>\n

behind the text.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like in school when they taught you to outline.<\/p>\n

(Remember outlines?<\/p>\n

(Remember school??))<\/p>\n

They taught you to put things in an outline format:<\/p>\n

I.<\/p>\n

A.<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

a.<\/p>\n

etc.<\/p>\n

To help you understand<\/p>\n

the structure<\/p>\n

of the ideas<\/p>\n

you were outlining.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The ECFR has a hierarchical<\/em> structure.<\/p>\n

Its natural, inherent structure contains sections<\/p>\n

and subsections.<\/p>\n

By laying those out visually<\/p>\n

we help guide\u00a0not only<\/p>\n

your eye<\/p>\n

but also<\/p>\n

your mind.<\/p>\n

We indent… so you can read.<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the littlest features have the biggest impact. Some small tweak can vastly enhance the user experience. Consider, for example, a small but powerful technology: the indent. Why do we indent the eCFR? Hey, the government doesn\u2019t indent their version? Why do we? There are reasons. In a very complex document, indents help you read […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[322],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}