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  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "description": "nasin lon sitelen pi (toki pona)",
  "path": "/posts/tok-style/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-06-13T00:27:45.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:6n2ngs7zpcpwxz3jaoxj56tu/site.standard.publication/3mo6y7ludvn2h",
  "tags": [
    "toki pona"
  ],
  "textContent": "toki a\n\nThis is my  for writing toki-pona.\nMy  includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki-pona whether that is in sitelen-pona or .\n\nala la\n\nMost of the readability that I talk about boils down to \"put stuff that's similar together\".\nWhen dealing with multiple subjects, several headnouns or verbs, your text might get cluttered and you might end up with a huge paragraph of text.\nThis can be readable, but it doesn't have to be this way.\nSpecially in sitelen-pona where horizontal and vertical spaces and symmetry are significant to the piece of text you are writing about.\n\nwan la\n\nLet's see an example of using .\n\nma ali la\n    jan li lon.\n\nWhen using , I have found text to be a lot more readable when the next piece of text is on the next line and indented to the right.\n\nYou should also do this when using .\n\nmi kama sona e ni:\n    ma ali la\n        jan li lon.\n\nHere I inserted a colon  after the .\nI don't find this necessary for readability but it makes the text look more formal in my opinion.\nUse it as you deem necessary.\n\nNOTE: When writing  in sitelen-pona you should use the directional .\n\nmi kama sona e ni8 zz\n　ma ali la zz\nzz zz jan li lon.\n\n should point in the direction to what you are referring to.\nThis becomes specially helpful in sentences where you want to talk about \"this\" and \"that\" but can only use .\n\ntu la\n\nLet's see an example using .\n\nmi kama sona e ni:\n    ma ali la\n           jan\n        en soweli\n        en waso\n        en kala\n        en kasi li lon.\n\nWhen using , try aligning each occurrence of  with each other.\nAnother example of this can be,\n\nmi kama sona e ni:\n    ma ali la\n        jan    en\n        soweli en\n        waso   en\n        kala   en\n        kasi   li lon.\n\nThis looks way better is sitelen-pona\n\nmi kama sona e ni zz \nzz ma ali la\n\nThis lets the reader simply glance over all the headnouns and find the important parts of the sentence easier.\n\nYou can do this with  too:\n\nma ali la\n        jan li lon\n    anu soweli li lon\n    anu waso li lon\n    anu kala li lon\n    anu kasi li lon\n\nThis sentence, has a different meaning, and also feels a lot different.\n\ntu wan la\n\nWhen using , \n\nlipu ni: mi sitelen nasin lon toki pona.\n\nn la\n    o lukin e ni:\n           mi kepeken linluwi leko\n        en mi kama sona e ni:\n            ma ali la\n                    jan li lon\n                anu soweli li lon\n                anu waso li lon\n                anu kala li lon\n                anu kasi li lon.\n\n    ni li nasin mi:\n        mi kepeken nimi La la\n            mi kepeken weka.\n            mi kepeken toki mi.\n        mi toki e ni:\n            te ma ali la\n                jan li lon to.\n        mi kepeken nimi En\n\nn la\n    sina kepeken nimi En la\n        tenpo linja pini la\n               sina sitelen weka\n            en sina sitelen nimi En\n            en sina sitelen nimi wile.\n\nn la\n    sina kepeken nimi Pi la\n           sina kepeken sitelen \"(\"\n        en sina kepeken sitelen \")\".",
  "title": "nasin toki"
}