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From: | Damian McGuckin |
Subject: | Re: End-of-sentence spacing |
Date: | Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:13:36 +1100 (AEDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, John A. wrote:
Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly.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.
I was taught that approach in the late 70s and have been educating others (who work for/with me) along these lines ever since.
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