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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Sun May 17 22:41:33 BST 2020

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Luke Emmet <luke.emmet at gmail.com> writes:

I think certain common idioms can be implemented by a client as a UI
pretification, for example the frequently seen square bracket
citations could be expanded [like this] or this [1]. The community
could encourage this idiom as it is very gemini-friendly.
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scheme://domain/path1 [like this]
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scheme://domain/path2 [1]

I think something like this as a "best practice" is our best substitutefor inline links. I'd add a short link description after the bracketedexpression in the link line, like this[3]

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gemini://domain/path3 [1] Further discussion of link formats

I had tried things like *, †, ‡, as in print, but they're not that greatvisually, especially without the ability to superscript them.

-- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |