Ventilated Prose (2009)(vanemden.wordpress.com)
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Ventilated Prose (2009)
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In the early days of word processing (runoff, troff, IBM script etc.) when people used line-oriented editors like ed, it was considered good practice to split each sentence across lines at the boundaries of clauses and phrases, for ease of rearranging them. The effect is similar to what's described in the article.