elimination of whitespace to herald bold age of efficiency

Publishers have been analysing their tremendous success at making full-text machine unreadable through lack of semantic markup.  Their analysis indicates further efficiencies can be made by eliminating all white space in documents altogether, including between words.  Abstracts will be dramatically more compact, and overall this will lead to tremendous savings of paper and electrons - a bold new development for a greener scientific literature.

"Althoughthiswillmakeitmuchharderforpeopletoread,"aleadingpublisherstated,"wefeltthatpeoplemightaswellhavethe sameexperienceasmachines,intheinterestsofefficiencyandequality".

UPDATE: In case you can't tell from the date, the above was an attempt at April 1 humour.

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[walt crawford]

Richard,theoddthingisthatthepublisher'sstatementreallyisn'thardtoreadatall.