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A proposed scheme for parsing preformatted alt text

Nathan Galt mailinglists at ngalt.com

Fri Sep 11 20:27:11 BST 2020

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On Sep 11, 2020, at 12:44 AM, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

It was thus said that the Great Nathan Galt once stated:

On Sep 10, 2020, at 5:30 PM, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

I added the following non-standard document:

gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat.gemini

that contains "machine readable text" at the opening preformatted marker,

and a "human readable text" on the ending preformatted marker, just to give

an indication of what it might look like and what might be done with it.

Enough talk, *someone* has to do an implementation to scare the bejeezus out

of everyone (not that it's particularly scary in what I did).

-spc (HTML people. Seriously, HTML. You want your format, you have it

already ... )

I like sets of concrete examples. Thanks for whipping this up.

What I dislike about this style of “‘machine-readable’ text up top” (for

some definition of “machine-readable”) is that the alt-text function has

been entirely obliterated, at least in these examples.

For the two code bits at the top of the page, the alt text should be the

contents of the captions at the bottom of each.

For the three “images”, the alt-text should be something like:

- a dragon

- Merry Christmas

- a Christmas tree with a rabbit sitting near its base

Okay, check out

gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat-2.gemini

-spc (Taking away my fun with the alt-text ... )

Much better.

I don’t know if “image” before the ASCII-art images is, or would be, useful to anything.

It seems a little weird to see “ code Lua” instead of “lua”, and I don’t know how easy it would be to adjust syntax-coloring libraries to account for this, but this nitpick is largely immaterial.

Like with the last one, thanks for making a concrete example.