Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, at 9:40 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Aaron Janse once stated:
> > All of this is completely possible without reflow. All we need to do is to
> > state in the spec that text MUST NOT be hard-wrapped at 80 columns unless
> > it's supposed to be displayed that way.
> 
> How can you determine if text is text or source code? Both are less than 80
> characters in length.

What I meant to say is: my proposal is to only insert newlines into the gemini
source code if those newlines are expected to be preserved by the client.

> How do you determine when to wrap and when to reflow?

My suggestion was to wrap in the client, never in the source code, and to
never reflow.

> If anyone would like to test their client for wrapping purposes, this link
> might be beneficial:
> 
> 	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/wrap;1500

I did see that. Your site is always the first site I test on gemini clients :-)

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