There's a similar anecdote Gillian Anderson recently revealed during an interview on the X-Files, saying Chris Carter had an OCD-like habit to write dialog to conform to certain text layout preferences (no widows[1]) in the script, which made for the show's distinctive style of dialog cadence.
suckerpinch has a great video where he uses an LLM to do this same thing automatically
No mention of Tom7's "Badness 0" by the author is the a crime!
He managed to create the ultimate version of form over function. All hail Lorem Epsom.
Two definitions that I had to look up.
* Widow: a short final line of a paragraph that gets stranded at the top of the next page or column.
* Orphan: a first line of a paragraph stranded at the bottom of a page or column.
I am filled with both a deep admiration and horror at this.
It's shockingly impressive.
And that it was done for an amateur game guide! This is like a legendary work of art.
Ha, I quite enjoy doing this in comments or commit messages where practicable. But, that's just a few lines. :)
Ye gods! The fact that this was done by hand... I have no words.
This is the kind of thing that AI will render obsolete, which makes me sad.
But hey, we're thousands of years in and still finding creative ways to turn our time into something fun and amusing. Even with AI, I have no doubt we'll find new ways to prove we care.
LaTeX has existed for a certain amount of years already.
I just realized I have nearly always avoided widows and orphans because it felt bad to write that way.
I wonder if I was ever taught to write this way and forgot, but I feel like I just learned the terms for the first time.