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Why the hell is there a line break after every sentence?
by clysm 1y ago
Why the hell is there a line break after every sentence?
- robohoe 1y agoHello my high school research paper teacher
- amatecha 1y agoYeah, that's really a strange choice for formatting and makes it very hard to read. Not the typical practice to insert a <br> after every sentence... (that said, the post itself is a great read!)
- frizlab 1y agoI think it’s called ventilated prose. More commonly found in code comments.
- draga79 1y agoThe goal of truncating the sentences in that way was precisely to increase the suspense a bit, but I believe I miserably failed, making it just less readable.
- eks391 1y agoJust because they didn't see your vision doesn't mean it wasn't good. You clearly had an intent with it. For my anecdote, it worked for me and I didn't even notice the spacing until they pointed it out.
- Moru 1y agoIf you have a wide screen, you won't notice it so much. Try reading on a narrow screen in just about the wrong resolution and it will look like the author used notepad and hit enter every time they were too close to the edge instead of letting the program do the wrapping.
- dgan 1y agoNot OP: for what it's worth I understood your intent, and it didn't bother me
- Trixter 1y agoWorse, the formatting failed. Lines are breaking before the sentence is over, leading to two words in the next line, then a new line. (Linux, Chrome)
- amatecha 1y agoDefinitely not the end of the world - no worries! It just feels a bit uh, haphazard in a way. My eye is leading forward for the next words only to find I need to skip to the next line. I usually read very fast so I'll be a bit more sensitive to variations in formatting like that, I guess? All good though, like I said a great read anyway!
- lmm 1y agoProbably originally written for LinkedIn. The whole pointless "moral lesson" when they didn't actually achieve anything vibe fits too.
- draga79 1y agoNo, it wasn't written for LinkedIn. It was written for my blog, and I just wanted to share something that happened, as I often do. That's all :-)