[lojban] Re: lojgloss and linebreaks

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

>> e.g. paragraph breaks, pauses, and attitude, so I would say
>> that an empty line in formatting, which is not an actual part of the utterance, most certainly would not indicate a new paragraph.
>
> Then what about alice?

Lojban is somewhat similar to programming languages, so how about such
simile: when programming in C++, it is up to you, whether you ident
your code or not. Identation does not affects parsability of code, it
only helps human to read it.

I think, in Lojban sutuation is mostly the same. Paragraphs are
defined by [ni'o], and it is up to author, whether to reflect internal
structure of text, properly inserting line breaks, paragraphs,
tabulation etc, or not.

Or, maybe, author wishes to emphasize some part of (logical)
paragraph, using newlines.

In other words, I think that logical structure of text, determined by
Lojban grammar, should not be mixed with it's formatting.


PS Though, speaking of C++, there is u'i Python.  (-;
Dmitry.


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