Ah, so you're saying it is an interaction between CSS and text somehow? Because after I have removed the justification and background from the css, the sluggishness is now completely gone in all my files. I have just uncommentented the justification in my css. I have gone through a number of files and it is noticeable how Some files behave more sluggishly than others although on/off is noticeable in all files.
I have tried again in a new file. No sluggishness. Pasted first paragraph below, no verifiable sluggishness, could be there, could not be there. Pasted second paragraph, very clear delays. Note that once I commented out 'justify' in my css, all sluggishness disappeared again.
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So since the age of Atlantic Revolutions both transparency of government and freedom of speech have become the pillars of democracy, without which a representative system would be unable to function. However, as soon as restrictions on freedom of speech were lifted, what came forth were not only the reasoned journals of educated individuals from societies upper strata, like The Federalist Papers or their Dutch counterpart De Democraten that thinkers like Van der Capellen or Benjamin Constant had envisioned. On the contrary, the market was flooded with ‘dimerags’ as they were called in Dutch parlance: cheap magazines and pamphlets that slandered politicians, spread rumours and fake news and rejected most laws and policies by default. Given the unruly nature of newly established democratic governments, especially after the Terror had flooded the Parisian streets and rivers of the Vendée with innocent blood, those in power reasoned that somehow the licentiousness of the press needed to be curtailed, lest their heads were in danger of getting chopped off as well.
So among the elements of the relationship between press and representative systems one could consider, freedom of speech, transparency and censorship stand out. To a degree they are part of the same process: the attempts of the executive side of government to control the information available to the general public on the one hand, and the newly freed ‘people’ on the other, who were very much aware of their natural right of people to speak their minds in all matters, to anyone. The lawmakers were caught in the middle. Parliaments mostly failed to align this universal right with the wish to filter the ‘bad’ press from the good, but often succeeded in protecting the freedom of speech from governmental interference. It is striking to see the extent to which unbounded executive control could damage the freedom of the press. In France the rise of Napoleon killed off practically all freedom of speech, in the Batavian Republic the technocratic coup d’etat of 1802 that side-lined the legislative in Dutch politics took weeks rather than months to smother all oppositional press.
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For completeness my .css below:
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/* Enter your custom CSS here /body .main-editor-wrapper .cm-editor{
background-color: #474747;
/text-align: justify;*/
}
span.cm-content-span{
font-family: "EB Garamond 12", palatino, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 25px;}
span.cm-url{
font-family: "EB Garamond 12", palatino, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 25px;
}
span.cm-link{
font-family: "EB Garamond 12", palatino, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 25px;}
span.cm-code-mark{
font-family: "EB Garamond 12", palatino, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 25px;
}
span.cm-zkn-tag{
font-family: "EB Garamond 12", palatino, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 25px;
}
