Semantic line feeds

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 08:05:30PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 21:16 -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > That would be ideal, but I don't know if anyone will volunteer to do
> > this.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> I can do it since this is important for lyx2lyx.
> 
> What I do not like of the new feature is that I get examples like this:
> 
> $ diff -u old.lyx new.lyx
> ...
> -The paradigm is called REPL: Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop.
> +The paradigm is called REPL:
> + Read,
> + Evaluate,
> + Print,
> + Loop.
> 
> So in this case I had previously a sentence in a single line but now it
> is split into four.

I've noticed this also, and I agree it is not convenient in cases like
these.

> Was that the initial intent?

I'm not sure. I wonder if the intent was focused on long clauses
separated by a comma, and not focused on the case of using commas to
separate a list of short items.

Scott
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