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FW: Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

James Tomasino tomasino at lavabit.com

Mon Jan 20 12:09:01 GMT 2020

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On 1/20/20 10:28 AM, solderpunk wrote:
> Well, that's true for unordered lists, at least.  Ordered lists are
> another story 

Ordered lists are--so far--the only thing that really does break thelinear line-by-line processing approach. If they are sacrificed to thegods of a cleaner spec, I for one wouldn't cry too much. Unordered liststhat support reflow is the more important bit. One could always cheatand just use unordered lists and start each one with a number:

	1) item one!* 2) A really long item two that will be wonderfully reflowed on smallscreens by our awesome client writers.** 2a) I'm lookin' at you, Michael!** 2b) And the rest of you too. ;)

Saves us a bit o' logic. Keeps everything line based. You could run astateless renderer on a stream now and it wouldn't choke.