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James Tomasino tomasino at lavabit.com
Mon Jun 8 00:18:36 BST 2020
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On 6/7/20 11:06 PM, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
For example, if a Gemini content author wanted to quote from a modern
poem like T. S. Eliot's _The Waste Land_ and preserve the original
formatting, would they do something like this?
```
"What is that noise?"
The wind under the door.
"What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"
Nothing again nothing.
"Do
"You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
"Nothing?"
```
I suspect that most clients would interpret this block as just
pre-formatted text and render it in monospace--which I acknowledge is
correct behavior according to the current spec but not necessarily what
a content author wants if they decide to load their own page to see how
it looks in various clients.
Using the preformatted fences is exactly what you'd want to use. Yourexample above would preserve whitespace. That's one of the main purposesof the ```.
I don't understand the need for an additional line type from yourdescription.