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skyjake skyjake at dengine.net
Mon Sep 14 21:02:09 BST 2020
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On 14. Sep 2020, at 18:04, Kevin Sangeelee <kevin at susa.net> wrote:
I think the broader issue is that styling judgements on arbitrary text without semantic hints are only going to succeed in some cases.
Yeah there is surely no way to make this perfect in all cases without the author actually having a way to mark up a lead paragraph. In gemtext there is no such markup, and I don't think there should be. My goal is to make it work in most cases, so it 1) encourages/rewards the practice of having a brief and informative lead that stands out, while 2) being subtle enough not to be weird in other cases. Very long paragraphs, for example, can be detected and the effect could be disabled there.
The plan is to make this customizable in future builds.
Looking again, is the font colour different for block-quotes? I'm a bit colour blind, and it's hard for me to tell. Traditional vertical bars or italics tend to stand out for me, subtle colour differences (that most people see clearly) tend not to.
The quotes use a different color and a thinner italic font. They also have their own indentation level. But yes, the vertical bar is pretty commonly used for quotes, having that as an option would be nice.
Thanks for the feedback. :)
--jaakko