It's an experiment I've been trying for about two weeks, now.
I am using whitespace to make written English easier to read.
I put one sentence per line.
Long sentences are broken into multiple lines
    according to natural breaks in the sentences.
(I try to aim for an 80 column width.)
Indentation is used to signal the continuation of a sentence.
Basically, I am treating English like a programmer would treat code.
As an interesting and unexpected corollary,
    the English is much easier to edit, and
    diffs are way cleaner.
(I'm editing this in an external dedicated text editor.)

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It's less readable on mobile clients because code blocks don't linebreak automatically. I have to side-scroll your comments to read them in full, so the only feeling I get from your experiment is slight annoyance.

Raw text preserves whitespaces, so if I wanted them, I'd just show that instead. I don't get it.

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Can your web browser zoom the text out?

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