Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

> I don't think the ability to mark emphasis is likely to lead to abuse.
> Also, even if you plan on primarily interacting with Gemini in your
> terminal, let me point out that a lot of terminals support italics
> nowadays. And if your terminal doesn't, it can just ignore it.

I don't know if this has been pointed out before, but you can get
rendering similar to man pages (which has things like bold and underline
IIRC) by using troff; it should I think be fairly easy to parse,
although I have not tried it myself. The beautiful thing of troff
in this context is that there is also a designated MIME type
text/troff [RFC4263]; they also have a https-site [TROFF].

[RFC4263] https://www.iana.org/go/rfc4263
[TROFF] https://troff.org/

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