I don't usually say anything about the way I work, since this is a Word forum and I almost never use Word; I follow the forum just to keep informed, in case colleagues turn to me with questions.


In my environment, the nearest match to this question might be a 300+ page document where the developers and I migrated the content to DITA-compliant XML. We now deliver it as WebHelp and let the browser cope with resizing; to be fair, I'll admit the target audience will be consulting these helps while running the software on a PC, but we successfully use the same approach for another application designed for use on a 7" tablet.


pdf output remains a one-click option, but navigation/hyperlinks are optimised for the non-paper format. Editing and updating is of course a breeze, as individual topics are rarely more than [the equivalent of] a single page.


I happily read novels on a smartphone, but wouldn't want to write/edit 'documentation' on anything smaller than a laptop.