[lojban] Re: lojgloss and linebreaks

["Dmitry Shintyakov" <shintyakov@gmail.com>]

Hello Chris.

2008/6/20 Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>:
> Conventionally, casually, I think a paragraph break in text (or a
> double-linebreak in plain text) does imply a new paragraph, and I'll
> probably treat it as such whether or not it's technically accurate.
> But I was wondering if the convention had any formal backing.

Well, though casually paragraph break in text can sometimes really
imply new paragraph, personally I do not like the idea of embedding
such behavior in parser.

I believe that programs must be simple and predictable. They should
what they was told to do. Embedding different special cases,
exceptions of rules and other things is just an easy way to mess
things up a lot.

If you really like the idea of implementing such features, maybe it
would be better to make them optional?

After all, paragraph in text may be just element of formatting, and it
is not exactly the same as {ni'o}

Dmitry.


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