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In some countries, legal documents are required to not have any paragraph breaks, so you can have a document with one paragraph spanning 100s of pages. OpenOffi
by khaled 2y ago
In some countries, legal documents are required to not have any paragraph breaks, so you can have a document with one paragraph spanning 100s of pages. OpenOffice has a hard limit of 65534 per paragraph, and it took LibreOffice quite some work to left it: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30668 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30668
- briandear 2y agoWhy? Sounds ridiculous — intentionally making documents hard to understand in order to subsidize the administrative class.
- sandworm101 2y agoSo you can consistantly cite line numbers. Always the same number of lines per page. As with many legal writing rules, it probably made more sense back when journals were written with quills.
- khaled 2y agoOne reason that comes to mind, is to make sure no extra text is inserted in the empty space e.g. after a contract is signed.
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- pton_xd 2y agoSigning two copies solves that, or even making a copy after execution.
- mintplant 2y agoDoes it solve it, or does it wind you up in court arguing over which copy is the "real" version?
- pezezin 2y agoEasy, just make three copies.
- KetoManx64 2y agoWho gets the third copy?
- fennecbutt 2y agoThe government.
- euroderf 2y agoNo pilcrows ?