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Most writing style rules are context-dependently apt. The quote by Disruptive_Dave of Gary Provost rings true for artistic writing. Sentence length limits are more helpful for technical writing like papers/documentation, with its many side-details - just as a complexity control.

Either way, though, for sentence source formatting, sentences on line boundaries also help version control systems since a diff shows the delta on a per sentence basis. Note that this is slightly different than one per line - it is more integer number of lines per sentence since some are multi-line. Same ethos, though.




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