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> How is that difficult? Most text editors support word wrapping and syntax highlighting. To add to this, I personally prefer using semantic linefeeds — adding
by bradrn 4y ago
> How is that difficult? Most text editors support word wrapping and syntax highlighting.
To add to this, I personally prefer using semantic linefeeds — adding a newline after each sentence or clause (as in e.g. [0] [1]). I find this works exceptionally well with LaTeX, since I get the benefit of the newlines as I write and edit, while the typeset version is formatted nicely into paragraphs for me.
(Not that this is unique to LaTeX, of course; Markdown would be no different. The technique works well with all such tools.)
[0] https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose/ https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose/
[1] https://sembr.org/ https://sembr.org/
- CrazyStat 4y agoAn additional benefit of this style is that it plays very nicely with version control--diffs are much cleaner than if you have one paragraph per line.
- Certhas 4y agoVersion control configured for text should not split the text at newlines. It should split at full stops, commas, etc... Ideally it also should understand the hierarchy implied. The fact that we are using a tool chain built for kernel hacking to version control Text documents is a further problem. The workflow and presentation of Word or Google Docs in track changes mode is the gold standard here and is what people that edit text for a living actually use. (As much as I hate that fact when I am forced to move my latex documents into their workflows).