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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. | |
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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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[0] One sentence per line | |
[1] dbucklin |