S T Y L E G U I D E
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So I started to write a style guide that explains how I
format my text files. These are super useful! They remove
the need to think about how to write titles, paragraphs,
the way lines should be folded, and so on. I wanted to be
exhaustive, and also include the way I would deal with
sub-titles and subsections as well.
but there are already a lot of existing formats
for text. Gemtext is one of them and is close to perfect.
yet I miss being able not to have a format at all
So this post is to remind myself for the future: the beauty
of plain text is also its curse. It's just ascii character.
It has no meaning, no semantics.
and yet.
it remains readable(-ish
provided you have a screen
capable of showing 80*24 characters)
it will be displayed the way it was written
there is no pre-processing logic to keep in mind...
it's the lowest-common denominator.
I'm also not really addressing the styleguide itself.
Because it's still possible to writetext with no predefined
format while still keeping consistency between all the
documents! But that's where I fall short - everyday I want
to write things a bit differently, have different titles,
add some separators. So hey. I might just stay away from
style guide and embrace the fact that I don't need
consistency between things I write!