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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by ultraism on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:21PM (#21346846)
Don't use plaintext, use LaTeX. Since paragraphs are separated by an empty line, you can have each sentence on a separate in a paragraph on a separate line and have it still formatted as a paragraph in the final document. This allows for better diffs. Here is an example:

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/specificat...

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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by dragonwriter on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:26PM (#21346903)
> Don't use plaintext, use LaTeX

Markdown or Asciidoc has the same benefit as far as paragraphs.

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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by ultraism on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:20PM (#21347522)
Markdown doesn't address table of contents or references which were mentioned above.
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by dragonwriter on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:49PM (#21347880)
Asciidoc does, and there are TOC tools for markdown, though they are add-ons to markdown processors.
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