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Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Mon Sep 7 17:28:14 BST 2020
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On 07-Sep-2020 01:47, Sean Conner wrote:
I read the article linked, and I think a better format would be:
``` mumble mumble label text mumble; attribute1=value1; attribute2=value2
Skip the CSS rules since they aren't used in Gemini, but the attributes
for MIME *are* used, and those use the format I've shown above. If you can
parse MIME types, you can reuse *that* code to parse attributes.
```here is a table in CSV; content-type=text/csv; lang=en_US;
That's a possibility. Either formats are simple enough to parse I think.
The format for tables is *horrible* (at least in my opinion). The format
I use to generate tables (ultimately in HTML) is the following:
*header1 header2 header3 header4
**footer1 footer2 footer3 footer4
row-11 row-12 row-13 row-14
row-21 row-22 row-23 row-24
Yes I think people have jumped on the specific example of table parsing I gave. The example is a quote from Bouncepaw's original post, and was to illustrate primarily how the parameters are used in the alt text, not to propose a new format. Maybe that aspect wasn't clear enough.
The particular format for a table I don't endorse - CSV or TSV is more natural and the mime type is already defined.
I'll clarify the example so its clear I'm not proposing a new format for text based tables.
So your table example:
```Here is a table; content-type=text/tsv; lang=en
*+ 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
```
(Yeah, way eaiser to type than '|' between each field)
Yes I agree, as you illustrate, using TSV or CSV is probably better.
Just my two zorkmids worth. I don't really have a horse in this race, as
I don't really care for the current gemini text format anyway, and this is
adding complexity to a simple format, but that is solerpunk's call, not
mine.
I'm not proposing this needs to be institutionalised in the spec (although that would be cool).
Rather this is instead what I have in mind is more like a community practice. For example people are sometimes using unicode superscript or square bracket footnotes to indicate a citation marker for links.
Best Wishes
- Luke