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I'm not a programmer, please forgive me, but I love using Sublime as a writing tool for legislation and public policy in my work. The color coding system popula

• rsoto 10y ago
  I'm curious about your use case, care to elaborate a bit more? That color coding system you mention is for code syntax, so I'm picturing that Sublime for a text document might highlight seemingly random words used in coding (function, end, do, etc), and it doesn't seem so useful. So I'm geninuely curious.
  • Veratyr 10y ago
    The highlighting can be customised to do pretty much anything you want. I imagine OP does something like highlighting "should" a different colour to "must" and things like that. I too am curious about details though.
• deleted 10y ago
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• nine_k 10y ago
  Wow, great! Are there any plugins / modes for writing structured natural language text that you use? How do they help? What's missing?
• jhoechtl 10y ago
  Also curious. Do you use soft wraps or hard wraps when dealing with text? Further legislative text has a lot of resemblance to code.
• andrewfong 10y ago
  I've started writing a novel in Sublime using Markdown syntax with a spell check plugin and word wrap. Not sure if you're doing something different for legislation, but I imagine that setup would work pretty well for documents with lots of sections, bullet points, etc.
• JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  What's to forgive? This is way cool.
• vqc 10y ago
  How prevalent is the use of non-Word tools in drafting legislation? At Open Law Library[1], we're building a linter for legislation drafting as a Word plugin under the assumption that most drafting is done in Word. Would love to learn more about your process (vchuang at openlawlib dot org). [1] www.openlawlib.org