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Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by lproven on Monday June 24, 2024 @07:23AM (#40774703)
Back in the pre-GUI era, I did this with all my posts and comments online. All fully-justified, both margins, without any extra whitespace: just careful choice of words, and occasional (but always normal standard) abbreviations.

It was fun, once practised it barely slowed me down, and when people noticed it blew their minds.

Then along came GUIs and proportional fonts and made it all invisible. :'(

Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by eesmith on Monday June 24, 2024 @01:52PM (#40778861)
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, was known for this style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart#Writing_style

See examples at http://hart.pglaf.org/ .

Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by lproven on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:22AM (#40797597)
Huh! I never knew. Never saw an intentional example on the wider internet before. It was a Thing™ for me and about 2 others on the old UK CIX service.