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Solene Rapenne solene at perso.pw
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:16:45 -0500"u9000 (Nine)" <u9000 at posteo.mx>:
On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 17:25 -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Bradley D. Thornton once stated:
On 2/25/2021 11:42 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
But then we get to preformatted blocks, and the dreaded Ascii
graphics. This is what I’ve always disliked about all plain text
mediums. Sure, it’s wrapped up in a pretty block, but as I’ll
discuss in a moment, that isn’t necessarily helpful.
I solicited a response from him but to date have heard absolutely
nothing from him. But here's what I did in the meantime.
```ASCII-art blah blah blah
content
content
content
```
I might suggest something like:
preformat = "```" [ [WSP] tag ] [ [WSP] alt-text] end-of-line
tag = '@art' / '@code' / '@data' / '@poem'
Maybe 'poem' should be 'poetry'; it's the only tag there which is
quantity-specific. What do you guys think about this/the name(s)?
The '@tag' format marks out the tag, which I expressly limited to
just four categories for simplicity---one to mark ASCII (or maybe UTF-
8?) art, one for code samples, one for tabular data and one for
poetry. It's not mandatory, but it could help a client decide how to
handle the block.
I like the idea of further giving control over how content is displayed
to clients instead of authors, however I think '@tag' might make a
document look very marked up in clients that don't remove the '```'.
Perhaps '#tag' would look more normal?
``` Obligatory Cat picture #art
cat
```
Asking people to write English words in their capsule is notnice. I'm against the use of words like this to define acontent, convention or not.
While this may sound ridiculous to people from the mailing listbecause we have to speak English here, that doesn't mean Geminiwriters will understand English. So far, gemtext only requires touse some symbols. There are enough English everywhere, no need toadd some into gemtext.