If you go to four spaces you'll become compatible with markdown ? not necessarily worth it! Don't shoot the messenger on this one ? Paper <paper at tilde.institute> writes: > I am building a feed reader, so I am outputting plain text which can > contain some gemtext markup. I want to print it, but the client > shouldn't consider it a gemini markup. I could return "text/plain", but > I need some gemini formatting in the same page. After some discussion on > IRC yesterday, we found three approaches: > > 1. putting preformatting toggle lines before and after the user input > ``` > user input > ``` > - 10 more characters for each line (6 normal characters + 2x\r + 2x\n) > - if user inputs ```, all content under it will have preformatting toggle > reversed > + supported in all clients > > 2. putting a single space in front of the user input > user input > + only 1 line > + supported in all clients > - shifts the entire user input one character to the right > > 3. putting a single unicode invisible space in front of the user input > ?user input > + doesn't change the horizontal position of the text > - I am not sure what clients without support for outputting UTF-8 text > will do with it > > For now, I think the second option is best for me, am I missing some > options? > > Paper
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