Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

Krixano <krixano at protonmail.com> wrote:

> To further what I'm saying. Italics often conveys emphasis,
> which is conveyed in speech with intonation. Intonation is
> data itself. Italics is one of the few methods we can convey
> that in writing.
>

Gemtext is limited similarly to typewriters in that they don't typically
support italics. How did they express emphasis on typewriters? On the other
hand, the output of typewriters wasn't meant to be accessible to screen
readers.

I have already listed a bunch of different ways to convey the same thing as
you would with italics and their drawbacks.

Sidenote:
Since gemtext is UTF-8 by default and lack a way to suggest a custom font,
you could probably extend UTF-8 in the range <U+F0000> to <U+10FFFF> for
markup, like <U+F7777> for emphasis. I really don't like that idea, but you
get away from clashing with snake_case and the like.

-- 
Katarina
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