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Thomas Karpiniec tkarpiniec at icloud.com
Sun May 31 04:55:26 BST 2020
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Hi,
While testing a GUI text/gemini renderer I noticed that if a linestarts with an ASCII-emphasised word like this:
Then a spec-compliant browser will turn that into a bullet:
• Great* times are ahead
In the scheme of things it's a minor gotcha but I wonder if everyonewould be happier if some whitespace was required?
I note that this would make it different from the headings, whichspecify optional whitespace. It would make parsing slightly easier ifthat whitespace was mandatory here too - as it stands, you must checkfor "###", "##" and "#" in that order so as to avoid "###Hello" beinga top-level heading of value "##Hello".
None of this greatly matters but I think it's worth noting assomething to watch out for!
Cheers,
Tom