It isn't clear who the author is speaking to here. I hope for his sake that he isn't really speaking to most users of word processors. For most people, structu

It isn't clear who the author is speaking to here. I hope for his sake that he isn't really speaking to most users of word processors. For most people, structure in writing is visual. It's a paragraph because it has an indent or a blank line before it; it may also represent one complete idea or all that good stuff they say in English class, but that isn't what makes it a paragraph. It was that way before they started using word processors, and it'll continue to be that way - any other means of describing structure is always going to feel like a distraction to most humans with a need to put one word after another. That said, most people don't care about typographical quality. It satisfies their emotional needs for a memo or letter to look typeset at all. For these people, telling them to take what's now a one-step process and turning it into two steps, to gain some supposed advantages that either don't demonstrably matter or that you won't ever persuade them to care about, is not gonna fly. That said, for those writers who do care about structure and typography, Ulysses looks pretty cool.