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-The goal of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project is to make Wittgenstein’s published writings that are in the public domain freely available online to the public in a variety of languages. The main tool for this purpose are the webpages of which the site iself consists; these are [[wikipedia:Web_accessibility|accessible]], [[wikipedia:Responsive_web_design|mobile-responsive]], and searchable. You can find a list of all available texts in the “[[Project:All texts|All texts]]” page.
+The goal of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project is to make Wittgenstein’s published writings that are in the public domain freely available online to the public in a variety of languages. The main tool for this purpose are the webpages of which the site iself consists; these are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility accessible], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design mobile-responsive], and searchable. You can find a list of all available texts in the “[[Project:All texts|All texts]]” page.
 In addition to these web pages, Ludwig Wittgenstein Project also provides several tools for exporting the text files in different formats which may better fit both your reading preferences and research needs.
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 ==Customisable PDFs==
-This is the ideal solution if you would like to customise the appearance of your PDF or paper version of the text before either downloading or printing it.
+This option is best if you would like to customise the appearance of your PDF or paper version of the text before either downloading or printing it.
 This type of file is generated through the native “Print” feature of your browser with the addition of some [[MediaWiki:Print.css|dedicated styling]]. Through this feature, you can either print the document or download it as a PDF file. Depending on the browser you are using, the dialogue that pops up when you click the “Customisable PDF” button will let you choose:
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 ==Static PDFs==
-This is the ideal solution if you are planning to read your PDF on a screen and would like a fixed layout and uniform page numbering that you can cite.
+This option is best if you are planning to read your PDF on a screen and would like a fixed layout and uniform page numbering that you can cite.
 This type of file is generated through a pipeline which was designed by {{person link|Frederic Kettelhoit}} and runs on [https://github.com/wittgenstein-project/wittgenstein-published-works GitHub].
 ==EPUB e-books==
-This is the ideal solution if you are planning to read a text on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-reader e-reader] such as a Kobo, Nook, or Bookeen device; if you are planning to use a Kindle e-reader instead, we recommend using the MOBI file format (see below).
+This option is best if you are planning to read a text on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-reader e-reader] such as a Kobo, Nook, or Bookeen device; if you are planning to use a Kindle e-reader instead, we recommend using the MOBI file format (see below).
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB EPUB] files are also supported by many smartphone and tablet apps and can be opened on desktop devices with free and open-source software applications such as [https://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre].
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 ==MOBI e-books==
-This is the ideal solution if you are planning to read a text on a Kindle e-reader.
+This option is best if you are planning to read a text on a Kindle e-reader.
 This type of file is generated through a pipeline which was designed by {{person link|Frederic Kettelhoit}} and runs on [https://github.com/wittgenstein-project/wittgenstein-published-works GitHub].
 ==Markdown files==
-This is the ideal solution:
+This option is best:
 *If you would like to copy and paste either an entire text or a portion of it into a word processor such as Microsoft Word or [https://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice Writer];
 *If you need a very clean source file for further manual or automated text manipulation.
-The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown file format] (.md) is a very simple markup language that is used to generate formatting through plain text. Compared to HTML, it is particularly suitable as the format for the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project’s source files because it only encodes information that has semantic value. These files use the [https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown Pandoc Markdown] dialect.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown] is a very simple markup language that is used to generate formatting through plain text. Compared to HTML, it is particularly suitable as the format for the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project’s source files because it only encodes information that has semantic value. These files use the [https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown Pandoc Markdown] dialect.
 This type of file is generated through a pipeline which was designed by {{person link|Frederic Kettelhoit}} and runs on [https://github.com/wittgenstein-project/wittgenstein-published-works GitHub].
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 == Plain HTML files ==
-This is a less-than-ideal, but still potentially useful solution for the same purposes that are also fulfilled by the Markdown files:
+This is a less-than-ideal, but still potentially useful option:
 *If you would like to copy and paste either an entire text or a portion of it into a word processor such as Microsoft Word or [https://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice Writer];
 *If you need a very clean source file for further manual or automated text manipulation.
-This type of file is generated through the “Render” feature of [[Special:Version|MediaWiki]], the software this website runs on, which converts the MediaWiki source code of the page’s content section into HTML while ignoring all CSS styles except those that are declared as inline styles.
+In most use cases, however, the Markdown files (see above) provide better a solution for these needs.
+This type of file is generated through the “Render” feature of [https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki], the software this website runs on, which converts the MediaWiki source code of the page’s content section into HTML while ignoring all CSS styles except those that are declared as inline styles.
 It encodes information both with and without semantic value, but it may be practical considering that HTML is an ubiquitous markup language.
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 ==The covers==
 [[File:Philosophische Untersuchungen - Ludwig Wittgenstein Project - Cover.png|thumb]]
-The covers of the books consist of a series of dots running in reading order from top-left to bottom-right. The series is interrupted multiple times by the space occupied by the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project's logo, the author's name and the title, but it always resumes at the end of the relevant line.
+The covers consist of a series of dots running in reading order from top-left to bottom-right.
 After the first few rows of dots, which serve merely to outline the axis, a pattern begins. Within the pattern,