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Paragraphs or fixed line length #47

Closed jayvdb closed 8 years ago

jayvdb commented 8 years ago

Starting with Problem 477, some of the lines have been representing complete paragraphs, and are currently at ~250 chars.

Do we want a fixed line length imposed, or do we want paragraphs to be a single line? There are benefits of both approaches, and the era of tty fixed widths are over, with most terminals being re-sizable and supporting wrapping.

There are a few parsing problems that disappear if there are no line breaks imposed on paragraphs. The main benefit of a fixed line width is that we choose where the line breaks occur, rather than it occurring automatically. If we do fixed width, what should it be?

imsky commented 8 years ago

single line works for me :ok_hand:

jayvdb commented 8 years ago

Just noting that a big benefit of no fixed width is that list items then do not need a blank line between them simply because they are longer than the fixed width. This is remark warning list-item-spacing (Missing new line after list item), and is described in more detail at http://www.cirosantilli.com/markdown-style-guide/#empty-lines-inside-lists .