I haven't noticed any particular downside other than some reduction in You need to add even more hyperlinks, then you can put each hyperlinkĪ particular case accumulates, there might easily be 10 or 20 Sentence is on its own line and remains reasonably readable, and if The editor & difficult to modify, but with semantic linefeeds, each And it works particularly well with hyperlinks: as citations/linksĪccrete in a paragraph, it can start to become totally unreadable in An additional benefit is that by highlighting long lines, itĮncourages you to break them up or consider a rewrite. diffs look *much* better, especially when modifying large paragraphs. Linefeeds.) I got used to it within a few weeks.Īs time passed, I think it lived up to its promises: Re-edit all my old writings, I just began writing with semantic Year ago, back in March 2014, to try it out.Īt first, it felt peculiar to hit enter after every sentence, and itĭidn't look too good intermixed with older text. > Does anyone have any experience with how well 'semantic linefeeds' Whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of This copyright willĮxpire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, The contents for non-commercial purposes. Unless otherwise noted, youĪre expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use One project I was working on, if I use it internally.) I'm not sure what I think about the idea in The last sentence is of course the whole point - Most formatters don't careĪbout line-breaks inside a paragraph, so adding extras allows you to use > in Pandoc and all other Markdown processors, > These sentences, because they only have a *single* line break between > which also contains subordinate clauses. > because it also has this run-on sentence component, > it is pretty long and will probably "wrap" onto a new line, > that has a number of subordinate clauses contained with it, Play with Emacs or markdown-mode or common editing tasks etc (and IĬertainly don't want to convert my entire corpus to this formattingĭoes anyone have any experience with how well 'semantice linefeeds' Like 'wdiff = diff -color-words') but I'm not sure how well it would To work well with their diffs (and lessen the need for a git alias Since both darcs and git are line-oriented, this approach would seem I'd seen any suggestion to keep the double newlining, but instead Paragraphs with a double newline in between, because the usualĪlternative you see in Markdown examples is email-styleĪrbitrary-linewrap-at-120-column sorts of approaches.
My own writing style has long been to just write big blocks of “Semantic linefeeds,” as I call them, have been making my life easier for more than twenty years, and have governed how my text files look behind-the-scenes whether my markup format is HTML, TeX, RST, or the venerable troff macro typesetter.
Have you ever changed a few words at the beginning of a paragraph, only to discover that version control now thinks the whole text has changed?
> And your version-control system will love semantic linefeeds. Text editors are very good at manipulating lines - so when each sentence is a contiguous block of lines, your editor suddenly becomes a very powerful mechanism for quickly rearranging clauses and ideas. By starting a new line at the end of each sentence, and splitting sentences themselves at natural breaks between clauses, a text file becomes far easier to edit and version control.
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