OpenDocument text (Flat XML) .fodt

[Luuk]

On 27-12-2013 16:00, John Robson wrote:
> I always work with other friends using Github, the ".fodt" is very, very
> useful.  Many thanks for creating that.


can you also share WHY you do think it's usefull?

>
> I would like to suggest just to break lines more often.  Some lines has
> more than 5000 columns!!!


I yust did have a look at an .fodt file (i did not know this format), 
and i do not think that breaking up lines is a good thing within that 
format, because it's XML.

If you want shorter 'lines' in this XML, than you should write shorter 
sentences.... ;)

>
> What about break a line each 80 columns?!  This will help a lot the
> versioning systems and also when you need fix merges.
>
> Thank you again and Happy New Year to everybody.
>
> John
>