Re: Warn on mid-input line sentence endings

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hey Josh,

On 5/2/23 05:59, josh wrote:
[...]

> Here's a relevant passage about the origin of the phrase from
> https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose,
> 
>> In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller (he of the domes, but also of many other
>> things) was doing research for the Phelps Dodge Corporation. His boss could
>> not read Fuller’s reports, but found them perfectly intelligible when read
>> aloud by the author.
>>
>> For Fuller's own account, see below.
>>

[...]

>> The Director said, "I am having two poets for
>> dinner tonight and I will take this to them and see what they say." He
>> returned the next day and said, "It’s too bad — it’s poetry."

:-)

Heh!
Branden wasn't enthusiastic my emails when I wrote poetry in them, though :/
Any chance we can warn users that they should write poems, not prose?

$ cat poem.mdoc 
.Dd May 3, 2023
.Dt POEM 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm poem
.Nd not really
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Am I really writing a poem?  No, I'm not.  Or am I?
$ mandoc -mdoc -Tlint poem.mdoc 
mandoc: poem.mdoc:8:44: WARNING: new sentence, new line
$ my_mandoc -mdoc -Tlint poem.mdoc 
mandoc: poem.mdoc:8:44: WARNING: write poems, not prose

Just kidding, but technically, it's probably more accurate, and more fun.

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> Sorry to drone on about it, I just think it's very amusing :).
> 
> Josh

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