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Re: "My lizard brain keeps on thinking of ways to add formatting..."
I was really reflecting on my own overuse of emphasis, but overall I regret saying it is a crutch. Having said that, I do stand by YAGNI for the simple reason that most handwriting has no way to represent emphasis but it has been a fine way to communicate.
Also, I'm a fan of the minimal set of features to do a thing. That's why I like gemini. I'm not saying emphasis is bloat but a "why not" attitude to features might get us to bloat.
Jul 20 · 4 months ago
🐵 cquenelle · Jul 21 at 03:38:
My gut says to look to print books as precedent. I would favor using * for “emphasis” (typography unspecified). Then stop there.
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.
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.