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Several years ago I started putting every sentence on a new line when I write LaTeX, as it makes diffs cleaner if I want to go back and compare versions of a do
by CrazyStat 6y ago
Several years ago I started putting every sentence on a new line when I write LaTeX, as it makes diffs cleaner if I want to go back and compare versions of a document.
- StavrosK 6y agoI do the same but I noticed it feels very weird to write like that, it feels much more staccato, as if there's a bigger pause between each sentence. Nowadays I write paragraphs normally and then split the lines afterwards.
- hprotagonist 6y agowe’re all conditioned by twitter now, it should be fine! /s Now that you mention it though i bet there’s an easy macro to do this in emacs ...
- magicalhippo 6y agoFor the most part I do the same when writing emails. Appears to be a higher chance of people reading them that way. I don't write a lot of fluff though, and usually have two or three trimming passes before sending.
- layer8 6y agoI do the same in source documentation, to limit the portion that has to be reformatted when changing something in the middle.
- hprotagonist 6y agoi’d have trouble keeping line length limits in docstrings.
- layer8 6y agoIt doesn't mean that a sentence can't contain line breaks. It means that there's a line break after each sentence. This causes paragraph reformatting (for maintaining line length) to be restricted to the current sentence, instead of also affecting the following sentences.