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Hello Geminauts, I've just released v1.1.0 of md2gemini[1], I hope you're all proud. ;) I'm not just emailing to plug my project though. This new release adds support for footnotes as an alternative way to handle inline links, which markdown supports but text/gemini doesn't. You can see an example of how these footnotes look in my email here. md2gemini will automatically create footnotes for all your inline links in markdown, if you enable it. md2gemini actually offers several linking options: breaking up the paragraph to directly link, removing all links, footnotes at the end of each paragraph, or footnotes at the end of the document - like my email. There was some discussion in another thread about having inline links in text/gemini, which solderpunk rejected because it would make parsing much more difficult. I agree with him, and so I wonder what others on this list think of my take on this. Does using footnotes make sense? Are there better, or just different ways to do solve this problem? 1: https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/md2gemini makeworld
For my part, I already started putting the "at-end" option to work (links at the end of the document). The result is working for me beautifully. On 5/19/20 7:33 AM, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote: > Does using footnotes make sense? Are there better, or just different ways to do solve this problem? -- gemini://kwiecien.us/
colecmac at protonmail.com writes: > There was some discussion in another thread about having inline links > in text/gemini, which solderpunk rejected because it would make > parsing much more difficult. I agree with him, and so I wonder what > others on this list think of my take on this. Does using footnotes make > sense? Are there better, or just different ways to do solve this problem? As a 'best practice', and not as a specification, I prefer using footnotes after each paragraph. I'm glad to see your program supports that option. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |
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