On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:16:45 -0500 "u9000 (Nine)" <u9000 at posteo.mx>: > On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 17:25 -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Bradley D. Thornton once stated: > > > On 2/25/2021 11:42 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > > > > But then we get to preformatted blocks, and the dreaded Ascii > > > > graphics. This is what I?ve always disliked about all plain text > > > > mediums. Sure, it?s wrapped up in a pretty block, but as I?ll > > > > discuss in a moment, that isn?t necessarily helpful. > > > > > > I solicited a response from him but to date have heard absolutely > > > nothing from him. But here's what I did in the meantime. > > > > > > ```ASCII-art blah blah blah > > > > > > content > > > content > > > content > > > ``` > > > > ? I might suggest something like: > > > > ????????preformat = "```" [ [WSP] tag ] [ [WSP] alt-text] end-of-line > > ????????tag?????? = '@art' / '@code' / '@data' / '@poem' > > Maybe 'poem' should be 'poetry'; it's the only tag there which is > quantity-specific. What do you guys think about this/the name(s)? > > > ? The '@tag' format marks out the tag, which I expressly limited to > > just four categories for simplicity---one to mark ASCII (or maybe UTF- > > 8?) art, one for code samples, one for tabular data and one for > > poetry.?It's not mandatory, but it could help a client decide how to > > handle the block. > > I like the idea of further giving control over how content is displayed > to clients instead of authors, however I think '@tag' might make a > document look very marked up in clients that don't remove the '```'. > Perhaps '#tag' would look more normal? > > ``` Obligatory Cat picture #art > cat > ``` > Asking people to write English words in their capsule is not nice. I'm against the use of words like this to define a content, convention or not. While this may sound ridiculous to people from the mailing list because we have to speak English here, that doesn't mean Gemini writers will understand English. So far, gemtext only requires to use some symbols. There are enough English everywhere, no need to add some into gemtext.
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