In reply to Bastian.

Tim Kaye:

No professional writing software pre-determines the size of a block. It would just keep interrupting the flow for a writer to have to think about creating a new block all the time. Instead, the size of each block always gets determined by the writer as s/he goes along.

Correct. And that's the same thing that I said. You don't have to "create a new block all the time". You just keep typing.

Try it yourself. Load up the editor, start typing. Hit return at the end of paragraphs and keep typing. Type a long missive if you like.

Now, afterwards, take a look. All your paragraphs are blocks. No need to create anything, it does it for you.

The other concern is what happens when you don't want them to be separate blocks anymore. So, go to the beginning of one of your paragraphs, and hit backspace. What happens? I'll save you the trouble: It merges the blocks back together, like they were never apart.

That's sort of my original point. As long as the editing flow is unchanged from a more normal editing flow, then the demarcation of paragraphs into separate blocks is kind of irrelevant.

Where it becomes relevant is when you start doing other things to the content, like inserting images between paragraphs, or floating an image to the right and having a paragraph flow around it, or other such things that are more part of layout than writing. Then the block thing makes sense. It doesn't make any sense for writing the content, true, but if it doesn't actually change how the content is written, then it doesn't much matter there.

Don't confuse considered opinions and disagreements with your own point of view with "hubris". I'm saying these things because I've thought about these things and these are my opinions. Nothing more than that.