S T Y L E G U I D E ------------------------------------------------------------ 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!