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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Sat Jan 18 23:10:09 GMT 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:16:27PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > > > Red alert! Raise shields! Strap in! This is going to be a bumpy ride. > > I'd have expected nothing less from you. :) In fact, the very fact that > felt this abrupt change of direction was worth careful nit-picking > rather than dismisisng it with a fatal flaw up front is a plesant > surprise! Well, I don't have very strong feelings about text formatting for Gemini. Also, anything that's been cleared up in subsequent emails will not beaddressed here as there's no need to clutter things up. > > Almost---tabs (and yes, I do use tabs---I like me the tabs) are an issue > > and while I can handle them (I have code that will expand them up to 8 > > spaces) not everybody has code to deal with this. So question: > > > > WHAT ABOUT TABS? > > > > They WILL show up. > > In headings??? I have no idea what to suggest regarding how to handle > that. Is this such a deranged edge case that we feel safe letting that > behaviour be client-defined? Not necessarily in headers, but they will appear in Gemini files (I'mthinking most likely in pre-formatted blocks). The thing the clients haveto be aware of is that tabs take 1 character space, but can reference up to Nspaces (where N is typically 8, but can be arbitrary values per tab). > Well, I guess a lot of your questions here are moot in light of my > earlier post about the + syntax. They are, and I shall update my code accordingly. > > -spc (Will torture specs for food ...) > > You'll never go hungry! Ha! -spc