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From: Gustaf Erikson <gerikson@gmial.com>
Subject: Re: Gemini markup extensions [Was: Re: a solution for emphasis]
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:23:16 +0100
Message-ID: <87mtj143qj.fsf@news.gerikson.com>
Martin <martin@datapulp.de> writes:
I always asked myself, why we do markup not using ASCII characters?
Did we forget about our roots? ;-)
For emphasis e.g. there are ASCII characters 14 + 15. Once upon a time
it was implemented by exchanging a black color ribbon with a red one
for emphasis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_Out_and_Shift_In_characters
"Emphasis" would ~ be what in HTML may be called <strong>.
HTML could have be done with ASCII Control Codes 17 - 20 instead of
<xxx> and </xxx>. These control codes are especially thought out for
these kind of "flexible usage". And making use of them would have
given a better integration as inserting another level of meta-usage of
normal characters with all their problems, like escaping for
displaying control strings again in readable text and so on
... just some rebel thoughts
Martin
We should bring back Wordstar formatting.
http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/WordStar
Or why not ROFF?
/g.
--
Just another old hacker
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a solution for emphasis (by Gustaf Erikson <gerikson@gmial.com> on Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:13:15 +0100)