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Yes, I use one sentence per line for things like latex or markdown, but I mainly do that because of line-based diff tools. For me, reading one sentence per par
by jpcfl 3y ago
Yes, I use one sentence per line for things like latex or markdown, but I mainly do that because of line-based diff tools.
For me, reading one sentence per paragraph is fine for short things like comments, but I find it gets exhausting after 8~10 sentences. It feels like the author is unable to focus and expand on one thing, and keeps moving on new points over and over again, or like every sentence is of equal importance and some pivotal revelation in the story.
- cratermoon 3y agoThe part of about line-based diff tools caught my attention at first, too. In the section "Hints for Preparing Documents" in Unix for Beginners[1], Brian W. Kernighan writes, "Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly." At the time he was writing that, around 1978, the unix editor was ed, a line-based editor. As Derek Sivers notes in his post, there are many other reasons for semantic linefeeds[2], and over time I've found those reasons more important. 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20130108163017if_/http://miffy.tom-yam.or.jp:80/2238/ref/beg.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130108163017if_/http://miffy.t... 2 https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/