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From: | John A. |
Subject: | Re: End-of-sentence spacing |
Date: | Thu, 7 Jan 2021 13:33:16 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 |
Karthik Suresh (2020-12-20) dixit:
[...] Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging sentences, these precautions simplify any editing you have to do later. — Brian W. Kernighan, 1974
I just wanted to thank you for sharing this!I've been an avid sentence-line-breaker before, but I've now started to apply Kernigan's method, and it is very liberating, and much easier to edit.
Best regards John
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