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Poetry in Gemini

Miguel de Luis Espinosa enteka at fastmail.com

Mon Jan 25 21:23:11 GMT 2021

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 9:11 PM, acdw wrote:

On 2021-01-25 (Monday) at 20:58, Miguel de Luis Espinosa

<enteka at fastmail.com> wrote:

Poetry is dear to my soul. And in the Big Bloated Web is a pain to set

it up properly. So, I resolved to explore it in Gemini.

My first wee experiment is a pseudo-haiku Flor 4. This little poem or

something has five spaces at the start of the first line. And it's

displayed like that by amphora, However, the proxies I've tried

collapse those spaces. I suppose due to the way HTML and CSS behave by

default.

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gemini://enteka.xyz/flor4.gemini

I've also had issues typesetting poetry in various markup languages;

LaTeX has an alright mode but for HTML I use <pre > style="font-family:serif;"

etc. In fact, the only extension to the

text/gemini format that I would imagine being behind would be a

preformatted, but not monospaced font, block. Not that that really

makes any sense.

Anyway, when I've typeset poetry in Gemini I put the lines in between

preformatting blocks -- at least that keeps the lines correctly spaced.

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~ acdw

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In HTML, out of desperation, I created my own tags <verso> and <estrofa> and some CSS for quite basic stuff. Not saying it's kosher, though.

But the thing is that amphora (haven't tested elsewhere) does respect the spacingeven when it's at the beginning of the line, even in regular gemini text (i.e notpreformated). However the proxis fail at this.

I feel like the web forgot poetry, perhaps Gemini could do better. Thepotential is there.