Text formatting in sitelen pona: Difference between revisions

To improve reading flow, create a sense of intentionality, and control horizontal length, writers may add line breaks strategically, combined with indentations to put the fragment of the sentence in the same vertical position as counterparts in the sentence.

On a digital document, this ''vertical alignment'' is easiest to achieve by using a monospaced [[font]]. Since Unicode ''ideographic spaces'' can take up exactly as much space as a single {{tp|sitelen pona}} character in these fonts, writers are able to add as many ideographic spaces as characters get skipped in the indentation. In handwriting, vertical alignment is trivial to achieve manually even without taking care of character widths overall. This method was pioneered by lipamanka.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lipamanka.gay/toki-pona-taso|title=LIPUmanka|website=lipamanka.gay}}</ref>