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		legulere on April 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text One reason not to use plain text is that you usually need to manually add newlines inside a paragraph. This makes me furious when I have to edit something.

jamer on April 19, 2015 [–]

Some text editor programs do this for you, either automatically or with a key-stroke.

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