Text readability

[bodograumann]

I feel that the overuse of bold markup in the proposal texts leads to bad readability.
Can we remove most of it?

[jamiebuilds]

I think this issue belongs in https://github.com/tc39/ecmarkup

[js-choi]

I think they’re referring to the copious use of bolding in the explainer document. That’s my fault; my apologies.

It’s a habit I picked up from Bret Victor in his Scientific Communication as Sequential Art, and it personally makes it easier for me to read dense technical texts, but I understand that it’s a matter of degree, and it might not apply to everyone.

I think it is a reasonable request to reduce—it doesn’t have to be completely removed, just reduced.

But I don’t currently have time to work on going through the entire explainer document and reducing the boldface, sorry. A pull request would be welcome.

[js-choi]

• I’m taking a look at this again. I’ll try to reconcile DRAFT: reduce bold, addressing #199 #212 and merge it sometime soonish.
• I’m also wondering if it might be a good idea to split the explainer into several pages. README.md would preserve its current headings, linking to each subtopic’s article, like in Wikipedia’s summary style. We’ll tackle that after this.
• We also may want to switch from narrative prose to bulleted list outlines for conciseness. The current explainer text is dense.