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	iChunky over Smooth
	iJanuary 19th, 2018
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	iThis phost is not about peanut butter,
	ibut about plain text.
	iI recently read a blog post [0]
	ishared by dbucklin [1]
	iover on the #gopher channel on irc.sdf.org
	iabout writing text that breaks text
	iinto chunks of semantic ideas or sentences.
	iWhile it seems to make the text a bit longer
	iit really does help with readability
	ias well as version controll diffs
	iand even editing.
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	iAs I've been writing this phost
	iI've been moving sentences around
	ieither in part or in whole.
	iHaving a period always at the end of a line
	iand sentences always begin on a new line
	iis remarkably helpful.
	iThere is a bit of a congative disconnect
	iwhile I adjust to breaking up my text
	iin a way that doesn't feel as natural
	ias my writing style normally is,
	ibut that can be attributed to it being new
	iand my forced attention on the style
	ito ensure I'm doing it properly.
	iEven now,
	ias I end this second paragraph
	ithe technique is becoming more natural in flow.
	i
	iI'd like to know
	iwhether this format
	imakes things more difficult for you to read
	ior makes it easier to scan.
	iPlease send me an email,
	ia toot on mastodon,
	ior a phlog reply
	iwith your thoughts.
	i
	iI see this as an easy way to
	iauthor my markdown blogs,
	isince the natural formatting of markdown
	iwill ride these paragarphs into a single block.
	iWriting this way for drafts
	ialso makes a lot of sense.
	iI'm really only concerned about
	iusing it in its broken--almost poetry-like--format
	iin a medium like gopher
	iwhere people will read it this way,
	ior in my books
	iwhere I will want to
	ieventually refomat things into manuscript form
	iwith clear dialogue formatting
	iand section breaks.
	i
	iI think I'll give this a try for a while.
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	[1] dbucklin