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Re: "My lizard brain keeps on thinking of ways to add formatting..."

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In hand written text I think underline for emphasis is common?

"No, _you_ do the dishes." definitely works ;)

It occurred to me that eith "unspecified emphasis" clients could use the language in the response metadata; italics for English, maybe bold or underline for other languages.

☕️ Morgan

2023-07-21 · 2 days ago

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My lizard brain keeps on thinking of ways to add formatting such as emphasis or underlines to gemtext. I have to keep reminding myself that a lot of this formatting is a crutch for good writing, and only really exists in an ad hoc sense due to the digital publishing revolution. Some guy just invented bold italic underline and we've been just putting them everywhere since. Just like all caps is possible but has no taste, so is text formatting.

💬 gyaradong · 14 comments · 3 likes · 2023-07-18 · 5 days ago