It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
>
> I remain as commited as ever to the idea that any text/gemini markup
> should have the property that simple clients can just dump it right to
> stdout verbatim and that should be very usable. As I argued
> previously, this rules out any kind of syntax where <pre> lines are
> indicated by some per-line prefix, as that prefix would break
> copy-and-pastability for simple clients dumping things to stdout.
> This is one more reason not to use the "leading whitespace" system
> proposed by Sean[2] (whose detailed spec remains a very nice and
> useful precise definition of lots of fuzzy concepts being slung around
> here).
Thanks. I understand the concern about copy-n-pasting (I see issues all
the time on Reddit when people don't understand to prepend each line with
four spaces when posting source code).
> So, given this, I am pretty much settled on using an easily
> recognisable line to toggle this mode on or off, say:
>
> ```
I have questions. Oh, do I have questions.
```
This text is on the left.
This text is mostly centered.
This text is on the right.
```
But now ...
````
Note that there are four ticks.
What's the expected result?
Literal text?
Or reflowed text?
```
```
This is similar to the above,
but the block ends with four ticks,
not the expecte three.
````
``` What about trailing text?
Is that allowd?
What is the expected result?
```
```
```
(You should be able to handle the above as well).
> I have experimented with supporting this syntax, and allowing
> reflowing of text not enclosed by ``` lines to an arbitrary
> user-specified width in AV-98 (not pushed to tildegit yet, but expect
> it soon). It really is not too difficult to do, so I don't think
> complexity of implementation is a good argument against this.
One thing to watch out for are lines that exceed the wrapping length with
no space (or dash if you are ambitious) characters to break on.
> Does anybody know of a programming language where lines consisting only
> of three consecutive single quotes happen to occur frequently?
I want to say Python. I don't program in Python, but I know I have seen
that syntax in some lanuage.
-spc
> [2] gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0004
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