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+title: 'One sentence per line'
+category:
+- blog
+abstract: Why I write one sentence per line
+date: 2023-12-15T12:00:48+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+Earlier today I've stumbled upon a blog post called "[Writing one sentence per line](https://sive.rs/1s)".
+By a complete random dice toss, this is what I've been doing for some time.
+
+That blog post focuses on the quality of writing, of which I have not thought.
+I'm far from writing proper English, so sentence flow is something for future me.
+My reasoning was strictly technical.
+
+Why do we have paragraphs?
+To make reading easier.
+It's common knowledge that one paragraph contains one thought.
+
+I hate reading texts where this rule is not followed, and I've seen some crazy stuff.
+Some folks try to "paint" with words - mixing font sizes, positions, order.
+There even is a book that uses this gimmick as selling point[^house-of-leaves]
+[^house-of-leaves]: [*House of Leaves* by Mark Danielewski](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/36526/house-of-leaves-by-mark-z-danielewski/).
+I've been told it's great.
+
+But it makes writing more difficult.
+I don't use mouse (vim and emacs are all I trust), so going to n-th word in a few hundred long line takes some time.
+Yes, there are ways to snipe to a given position or to move by sentence, but I don't use those.
+I could also use a mouse pointer, but I refuse to acknowledge that possibility.
+
+Luckily, I write digitally and how the text looks *raw* is not how it looks when *processed*.
+Very often new lines are not important.
+
+In markdown single new lines are ignored and presented as sentence[^md-two-spaces]
+To create a new paragraph, you need to use two (or more) empty lines.
+[^md-two-spaces]: you can bypass that by having two spaces at end of a line.
+
+Similar behavior is used in Latex.
+
+In HTML new lines don't matter at all as you need to explicitly state a new paragraph or even a new line.
+
+Having one sentence per lines allow for easy navigation, easy restructuring and good-looking diffs.