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A Gemini-style proposal

Philip Linde linde.philip at gmail.com

Thu Nov 4 00:34:03 GMT 2021

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Hi Roberto!

On Mon, 01 Nov 2021 11:03:39 +0000Roberto Soccoli <roberto.vpt at protonmail.com> wrote:

Gemini now expects the "* " tag for lists.

I propose a single "**" tag, which I call "highlighted", which can be used several times in each paragraph of text as a switch that was initially turned off.

Previous discussions about in-line styling are relevant here:https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/003177.html

There are some good comments there why it's a good idea and why it'snot, and what the alternatives are. My suggestion back then was forclients to optionally allow users to define regular expressions todescribe text that should be emphasized in different ways. No need fora spec change so long as you don't change the content (see theparagraph below), because the spec gives some room for interpretationregarding rendering.

If you mean for these "**" not to be in-line, but to occur at the startof a line, note that Gemini doesn't have a concept of paragraphs andthat every line break is printed, unlike e.g. Markdown which joinsconsecutive, non-empty lines into paragraphs.

Each client can interpret "highlighted" at will.

For any semblance of backwards compatibility, clients that implementedthis feature would need to show the original "**" in addition tohandling it, or it might break existing documents.

-- Philip