It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated: > I was surprised and excited today to spot a (beta) web-to-Gemini > portal at https://portal.mozz.us/. By default it points at the > Zaibatsu, and my first thoughs upon seeing it rendered was "Oh, what a > shame, it messes up the bullet point list at the top of the page". > > But, no, nothing is messed up here, this is precisely what I specced > in 0.9.1 with the text reflowing! > > I'm kind of sad about this. I was resolved to destroying the > possibility of ASCII art in Gemini pages as an unfortunate "breaking > eggs to make an omlette" kind of thing. I agree with the many people > who have expressed frustration at Gopher content looking wonky if > viewed on anything other than an 70 or 80 character wide terminal. > But obviously I didn't think the consequences of the way I specced > things through very carefully, because I wouldn't have been anywhere > near as happy about destroying the possibility of bulleted lists. > Those are a really useful and legitimate thing for text-based content > to have. > > So, how do we fix this? There's always gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0001, which allows one to specify fixed or flowed, and for flowed, there's a way to mark lines that shouldn't be flowed at all. I even moved it back to a PROPOSED state. -spc
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