@Skillmon If you pass any nonsupported unexpandable token to \immediateassignment you get excellent error handling in form of silently eating the token.
So maybe it should be renamed to \immediateassignmentorgobble.
@JosephWright makes it vanish regardless where used \immediateassignment\begingroup\def\foo{}\immediateassignment\endgroup\show\foo should yield undefined, but yields empty.
@samcarter but if it speeds up reading, isn't it than good typography, because one of the main goall of typography is to represent text in an easy to read manner?
@samcarter I have no idea. Neither am I convinced that speed alone is a good measure (since typography is also a form of art and there are documents which I'd just describe as being beautiful, but none I'd describe as "could be read really fast")
@MarcelKrüger yes --- bionic-reading.com (although part of it seems to be free as in free beer).
@Skillmon I also have doubts. When I read that paragraph my brain is "stuttering", so I do not really think it helps me read faster. Maybe I should try with my mother language, but I find it definitely disturbing in English
@samcarter It would be a very small package, no? Although not to compete with indentfirst...
@Rmano for me it worked surprisingly well, even though English is not my mother tongue. Though there were some words which made me "stutter" as well. The thing is just: It looks so ugly, I'd never typeset a document using this.
@Skillmon It's not entirely improbable that it might help. But to be useful, I would think that it has to apply to most of the document text rather than as a command.
@PauloCereda --Hah! My freshman year in college, three instructors were Brit, and the fourth was German who had spent several years at Cambridge. (Fortunately, all the accents were RP.) When I went home for the summer, I had a distinctly non-US edge on my accent. Unavoidable.
