Hi, I'm here with a quick tangent.

It turns out that there is a lot of discourse out there about "semantic
newlines", under a few different names. So far the names I've seen are:

- One Sentence Per Line (OSPL)
- Semantic Line Breaks (SemBr)
- Semantic Linefeeds
- Ventilated Prose
- Semantic newlines (just on this list)

Reading through the pages below was helpful in getting a better idea of
what language people use to discuss this. They're mostly historical
retrospectives or arguments for the merit of semantic newlines.

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line
https://ramshankar.org/blog/posts/2019/semantic-line-breaks
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose
https://discuss.python.org/t/semantic-line-breaks/13874
https://discuss.python.org/t/one-sentence-per-line-for-peps-and-more/13920
https://sembr.org
https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-recommended-practices/#one-sentence-per-line

(Actually I think one-sentence-per-line denotes something slightly different
from semantic-line-breaks, not that I know what that difference is).

Hope this is interesting,
Josh

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