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@Furthering@convo.casa @RadtkeJCJ@mastodon.scot @zoy@merveilles.town Also the format flattening - I don't have a ton of examples of books where the typography is an important part of the story itself or equally as meaningful as the content off the top of my head, but the one that always comes to mind is House of Leaves. (I think some of the Lemony Snickett novels did some interesting things with typography as well. I haven't had a chance to read a lot of others that do much with the typography that I can recall as standing out to me. Though some of the adventure novels I read as a kid that included a lot of puzzles definitely used some special typography to make those work. And ofc Discworld using font changes to convey some particular character voices. From what I've seen a lot of LLMs tend to flatten formatting when fed text. Or they don't like it and won't parse the text at all. And I'm sure that comes across as 'don't do that' to less confident writers using LLMs, just as much as the flattening of the content of the text is discouraging.