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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:54:09 +0100
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On 1/18/11 9:06 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Adam Beneschan<adam@irvine.com>  writes:
>
>> Then again, I've never had much use for style guides, especially when
>> they're enforced.
>
> I mostly find them useful to settle style arguments; "we do it this way
> because we agreed to".

If "we don't agree", a more flexible setting would be to
have a computer adapt the display style of a free-format
language program to each one's viewing preferences...