Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo...
by somat on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:43PM
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It is not just to fit the screen, it also fits our line orientated version control better.
I don't know if this is suitable for large works(books), but for technical documentation I have my plain text source with one line per sentence, actually I go further than than and usually have one line per punctuation. The raw source reads a little hard but the version control diffs are much cleaner and editing is is easier. Most formats(html, troff, tex) ignore manual line returns anyway.
Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo...
by BrenBarn on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:10PM
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That's just another form of warping the file to fit the tools. The tools should be built to handle files that are structured in the way that is semantically most natural.
I don't know if this is suitable for large works(books), but for technical documentation I have my plain text source with one line per sentence, actually I go further than than and usually have one line per punctuation. The raw source reads a little hard but the version control diffs are much cleaner and editing is is easier. Most formats(html, troff, tex) ignore manual line returns anyway.