> On Oct 11, 2020, at 12:29 AM, skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote: > > On 11. Oct 2020, at 5:04, mailinglists at ngalt.com wrote: > >> First and by far the most important, I'd like to echo John Cowan's effusive praise. Lagrange is nothing short of insanely great. > > Thanks, glad to hear you like it. :) > >> First, in the category of "I don't know if it's wrong, but it _is_ different and I'm not sure I like it": I went to <gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/> and multiple spaces in link text are being collapsed into one space. > > Hmm, interesting. The Gemini spec doesn't seem to weigh in on whitespace normalization in link text (only in regular text lines), although it does say "clients can present links to users in whatever fashion the client author wishes". > > The way the right-aligning is done here assumes a fixed-width font. While it isn't appropriate to show all links using a fixed-width font, perhaps this use case of whitespace padding could be detected by the client and it could switch to fixed-width for those links only? Seems a little fiddly, though, since it also assumes a specific line width. Eh. I wouldn?t wish that on a client author. That user listing already looks kind of bad in amfora(1) already with my fairly-narrow text-width settings. I don?t think there?s a good solution here for properly-aligned text (all the preexisting proposals have been shot down or deferred or something), so my hunch is that the best option is to do nothing special. Situations like these are why I prefaced this whole thing with ?I don?t know if it?s wrong, but??. ? Nathan
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