---------------------------------------- Chunky over Smooth January 19th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- This phost is not about peanut butter, but about plain text. I recently read a blog post [0] shared by dbucklin [1] over on the #gopher channel on irc.sdf.org about writing text that breaks text into chunks of semantic ideas or sentences. While it seems to make the text a bit longer it really does help with readability as well as version controll diffs and even editing. As I've been writing this phost I've been moving sentences around either in part or in whole. Having a period always at the end of a line and sentences always begin on a new line is remarkably helpful. There is a bit of a congative disconnect while I adjust to breaking up my text in a way that doesn't feel as natural as my writing style normally is, but that can be attributed to it being new and my forced attention on the style to ensure I'm doing it properly. Even now, as I end this second paragraph the technique is becoming more natural in flow. I'd like to know whether this format makes things more difficult for you to read or makes it easier to scan. Please send me an email, a toot on mastodon, or a phlog reply with your thoughts. I see this as an easy way to author my markdown blogs, since the natural formatting of markdown will ride these paragarphs into a single block. Writing this way for drafts also makes a lot of sense. I'm really only concerned about using it in its broken--almost poetry-like--format in a medium like gopher where people will read it this way, or in my books where I will want to eventually refomat things into manuscript form with clear dialogue formatting and section breaks. I think I'll give this a try for a while. (HTM) [0] One sentence per line (DIR) [1] dbucklin