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Welcome to Tanelorn!

This is a temporary front page for your new Gemini capsule hosted at

tanelorn.city. The home page is linked below for your convenience.

Tanelorn Home Page

This sample page is also available from the home page, so you don't have to

save it.

gemini://tanelorn.city/welcome-guide.gemini

Please email matthew (if you're logged in) or contact@matthewgraybosch.com

(from outside Tanelorn) if you have any questions, are getting

harassed/bullied, need a password reset, want help backing up your account,

etc.

How to make Gemini pages.

To create a Gemini page, just use your favorite text editor to create a file

that ends in .gmi or .gemini.

A directory's index page is always named index.gmi or index.gemini.

Gemini pages have a very simple format compared to Markdown, HTML, etc.

# Heading 1

## Heading 2

### Heading 3


	List item


1. Ordered List Item

=> gemini://example.tld/index.gemini a gemini link
=> gemini://example.tld/meow.txt a gemini link to a plain text file
=> https://wikipedia.org/ a gemini link to a web site.

> A quote.

> Long
> Quote
> Is
> Long

If you want to mark a block of text as preformatted, just fence it off using

triple backticks (`) on the lines above and below your text.

Please note that there can't be any space at the very beginning of a line if

you want the formatting to be effective.

=> gemini://example.tld/index.gemini This is a valid link.
 => gemini://example.tld/index.gemini This won't work.

You don't have to use gemini format for anything but index pages. Non-index

pages can be plain text, Markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, groff macros,

etc. However, how gemini clients render non-Gemini text is up to the

client's developer.

You can also link to images, audio files, videos, PDFs, etc, but Gemini

clients won't display them inline. Also, please don't upload large non-text

files (over 250KB) to tanelorn.city. The more residents we have uploading

large files, the sooner I'll need to shell out for a bigger VPS and start

requesting donations. :)

BTW, your tanelorn.city account is also a Unix shell account. You can

connect via ssh and write with one of our text editors (ed, vi, mg, joe, or

nano) read and send local email using mutt, and even write small shell

scripts.

If you'd rather work locally and just upload, you can use sftp or rsync to

upload.

Windows users might want to use sftp with FileZilla to upload.