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Why should I break lines at all? Why not make the text as one line per paragraph, and let the reader wrap it?

April 26, 2017break let line paragraph reader text Wrap

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Why should I break lines at all? Why not make the text as one line per paragraph, and let the reader wrap it?

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We could either use 70-character lines and let readers unwrap them if they want to, or use infinite-length lines and let readers wrap them if they want to. We choose to wrap the lines so that they are readable on even the simplest of text editors and viewers.