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Bug reports: Multiple spaces in links; Cmd+S unreliable (was: Re: [ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client)

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org

Tue Oct 13 04:10:53 BST 2020

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:14 AM skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote:

I recognize that in gemtext one cannot use spaces like this for alignment,
while also permitting variable-width fonts and whitespace normalization.
Nevertheless, I was curious about the idea of normalizing multiple spaces
differently.

Another possibility would be to render a link name that contains more than2 consecutive spaces in a monowidth font, the same one used for ``` mode.That would be very clean, I think.

A simple rule of 8+ spaces becoming a tab character produced nice results:

That's worth keeping too.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgHeh, heh: ... or three pairs of wheels? I wonder what would have happenedif Ravna had just read a little further. In some weird way, Twirlipknows the Secret of the Riders. --Vernor Vinge, note 601-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201012/3575d200/attachment.htm>