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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Thu Jan 16 22:24:58 GMT 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:00:59PM -0500, Michael Lazar wrote: > To be clear, I agree with you that a max line length shouldn't be enforced by > the spec. I support the current wording of SHOULD as opposed to MUST. I'm more > talking about establishing a recommended best practice. Gemini files with lines > over N characters long should still be considered "valid" and must be accepted > by any gemini client. They might just look a little funky depending on how > sophisticated your client is. Oh, absolutely. All this discussion about hard wrapping at 40 chars isfirmly in the real of best practice recommendation. > The spec-spec as written right now says that all gemini lines should be > formatted so that they can reflowed by clients if the client chooses to do so. > That spec has been almost unanimously rejected by current gemini servers, in > favor of hard wrapping at 70-80 characters. The current spec-spec says that clients can reflow long lines if theywant to, but it doesn't place any obligation on authors or servers toactually provide long lines. Cheers,Solderpunk