agargarg

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   by agargarg 13y ago

   --- BEGIN MESSAGE --- --- BEGIN BLOCK QUOTE --- --- BEGIN BLOCK QUOTE --- I'm not talking tab characters, I'm talking indentation of whole paragraphs with plain spaces, as seen in the article. --- END BLOCK QUOTE --
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   by agargarg 13y ago

   > 8 spaces is fine. I'm not talking tab characters, I'm talking indentation of whole paragraphs with plain spaces, as seen in the article. Most existing viewers just wrap long lines so that the wrapped content is unindented: th
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   by agargarg 13y ago

   > In fact, if you've read the first post http://justinjackson.ca/words.html , I'd argue that this almost impossible to read through to the end without skipping. That's interesting: I saw the plaintext versi
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   by agargarg 13y ago

   But it wouldn't handle indentation properly, unless you define a standard formatting convention similar to Markdown. For example, you need to handle bullet points. But what if a plain, non-indented text just happens to contain a star a