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       Chunky over Smooth
       January 19th, 2018
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       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