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[spec] Ambiguity with regards to quote lines

ew.gemini ew.gemini at nassur.net

Sun Jan 3 19:01:28 GMT 2021

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Hello Alex,

alex wennerberg writes:

Hi all --

I noticed there may be a bit of ambiguity in the spec:

Lines beginning with "

" are quote lines. This line type exists so

that advanced clients may use distinct styling to convey to readers the

important semantic information that certain text is being quoted from

an external source. For example, when wrapping long lines to the the

viewport, each resultant line may have a "

" symbol placed at the front.

What isn't clear is whether subsequent quote lines ought to be

considered as part of the same quote block, ie, say my client surrounds

quotations with " marks. Should these marks surround each line, or

surround an entire block of subsequent quote lines?

The clients that I tested did the latter, and this seems intuitively

correct, but the spec doesn't make this explicit.

Let me know what you all think.

See section 5.4 of the spec.Section 5.4.1

In order to take full advantage of this method of text formatting, authors of

text/gemini content SHOULD avoid hard-wrapping to a specific fixed width, in

contrast to the convention in Gopherspace where text is typically wrapped at 80

characters or fewer. Instead, text which should be displayed as a contiguous

block should be written as a single long line.

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi

A line is "one" line. So "one line" starting with "

" andoptional space is a quote and is rendered as one block.Email type quotes with "

" on every line, happen to besubsequent blocks in gemini layout.

At least that is what I understand.

Cheers,~ew

All the best,

Alex

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