[SPEC-CHANGE] Full text reflow is out, long line wrapping is in

1. solderpunk (solderpunk (a) SDF.ORG)

Attention Gemininauts!

I have officially updated the spec-spec just now.

SUMMARY OF CHANGES:

Section 1.3.5.3 (Text display) has been completely rewritten.  The
previous optional text reflowing has been replaced with instructions to,
breifly, wrap long lines but not join short lines.

IMPLICATIONS FOR SERVER AUTHORS:

None

IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIENT AUTHORS:

Clients now need to implement wrapping of long lines.

IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTENT AUTHORS:

Authors MAY (and are encouraged to) reformat their content to avoid
hard-wrapping, so that their content can be displayed neatly on clients
with arbitrary display widths.

Cheers,
Solderpunk

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2. Julien Blanchard (julien (a) typed-hole.org)

Awesome! So glad we can finally move on to other subjects! I?ll update my 
clients soonish hopefully.

> Le 3 f?vr. 2020 ? 21:18, solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> a ?crit :
> 
> ?Attention Gemininauts!
> 
> I have officially updated the spec-spec just now.
> 
> SUMMARY OF CHANGES:
> 
> Section 1.3.5.3 (Text display) has been completely rewritten.  The
> previous optional text reflowing has been replaced with instructions to,
> breifly, wrap long lines but not join short lines.
> 
> IMPLICATIONS FOR SERVER AUTHORS:
> 
> None
> 
> IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIENT AUTHORS:
> 
> Clients now need to implement wrapping of long lines.
> 
> IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTENT AUTHORS:
> 
> Authors MAY (and are encouraged to) reformat their content to avoid
> hard-wrapping, so that their content can be displayed neatly on clients
> with arbitrary display widths.
> 
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk

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3. solderpunk (solderpunk (a) SDF.ORG)

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:20:46PM +0100, Julien Blanchard wrote:
> Awesome! So glad we can finally move on to other subjects! I?ll update 
my clients soonish hopefully.

I am hoping we can now, quickly, come to a decision regarding the need
for a pre-formatting mode (new post about this soonish).

I have already removed what little hard-wrapping existed at
gemini.circumlunar.space, and am updating AV-98 now.  Then I'll move on
to the ~100 LOC demo clients.

Cheers,
Solderpunk


> > Le 3 f?vr. 2020 ? 21:18, solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> a ?crit :
> > 
> > ?Attention Gemininauts!
> > 
> > I have officially updated the spec-spec just now.
> > 
> > SUMMARY OF CHANGES:
> > 
> > Section 1.3.5.3 (Text display) has been completely rewritten.  The
> > previous optional text reflowing has been replaced with instructions to,
> > breifly, wrap long lines but not join short lines.
> > 
> > IMPLICATIONS FOR SERVER AUTHORS:
> > 
> > None
> > 
> > IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIENT AUTHORS:
> > 
> > Clients now need to implement wrapping of long lines.
> > 
> > IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTENT AUTHORS:
> > 
> > Authors MAY (and are encouraged to) reformat their content to avoid
> > hard-wrapping, so that their content can be displayed neatly on clients
> > with arbitrary display widths.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Solderpunk
> 
>

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4. Bradley D. Thornton (Bradley (a) NorthTech.US)



On 2/3/2020 12:17 PM, solderpunk wrote:
> Attention Gemininauts!
> 
> I have officially updated the spec-spec just now.
> 
> SUMMARY OF CHANGES:
> 
> Section 1.3.5.3 (Text display) has been completely rewritten.  The
> previous optional text reflowing has been replaced with instructions to,
> breifly, wrap long lines but not join short lines.

I'm not sure what *briefly* implies, but IMHO, this is a good thing.

Kindest regards,

-- 
Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
http://NorthTech.US
TEL: +1.310.421.8268

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5. solderpunk (solderpunk (a) SDF.ORG)

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:57:27PM -0800, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what *briefly* implies, but IMHO, this is a good thing.

I just meant that "wrap long lines, don't join short ones" was just a
brief summary of what the spec actually says.

Glad you're happy!

Cheers,
Solderpunk

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