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alex wennerberg alex at alexwennerberg.com
Sun Jan 3 19:10:03 GMT 2021
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On Sun Jan 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM PST, ew.gemini wrote:
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.
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gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
A line is "one" line. So "one line" starting with "
" and
optional space is a quote and is rendered as one block.
Email type quotes with "
" on every line, happen to be
subsequent blocks in gemini layout.
At least that is what I understand.
Cheers,
~ew
This makes sense to me. Maybe a note could be added to the sepc aboutthis, since its somewhat unintuitive, e.g. different than how quotelines work in email, etc. Lagrange, for example, considers subsequentquote lines as par of a block quote.
This came up when I was quoting song lyrics. A solution I suppose wouldbe to use a preformatted block (that's how I've encouraged my poetfriend to write whitespace-aware stanzas)
Alex