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Re:One sentence per line, please by duskwuff on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:37PM (#4643301)
> Do I have to manually break lines that get longer than 80 characters (or whatever my limit is)? Am I supposed to turn soft word wrap on?

In most situations, there should be some sort of semantic break in your sentences every 80 characters or less. (It may not be demarcated with a comma.) If there isn't, you may want to consider reworking those sentences for clarity.

Re:One sentence per line, please by mturmon on Thursday October 11, 2012 @09:24PM (#4643522)
Yes. When writing LaTeX, I put line breaks in after phrases and clauses, as well as at every sentence end. I'm following exactly Kernighan's advice from old nroff documentation.

As a result, my text is very ragged right. I don't even notice it because I'm concentrating on meaning, not form.

Re:One sentence per line, please by ams6110 on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:47PM (#4643331)
Or you could just set your line wrap margin pretty low, e.g. 50 or 60 characters, and then when you edit don't re-wrap. Requires less thinking about where to break lines, while still keeping most changes localized to a line and thus cleaner diffs.