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@stack Neurotypical or not, calling Solderpunk an idiot on drugs is hyperbolic and uncalled for. Parsing the line types is trivial, and when you consider all the other things that Gemini programs have to deal with, it is a total nonissue.
I agree with @Gentooshnik that it is more important that the design is human-centric, because Gemtext is written by humans, mostly in a plain text editor without any assistance. Having to follow a super-strict syntax would make it less pleasant to use, and that would be a much bigger failure in the design.
Oct 07 · 2 months ago
Note that I did stop way short of calling solderpunk an idiot on drugs! And I do not object to responsible drug use. I merely prefer the drug theory to the alternatives.
The spec was sloppy and details (or lack of considering them) like this typically imply other issues. The choices taken were largely random and arbitrary. Luckily we needed something like this.
Why not use the first character for instance. Maybe 123 for headings, = for URLs, ` forma blockquote, > as before, space or anything else for text.
Or just use markdown, since you already need a library or two to do comms and crypto, and just disallow things you don't like. Minimalism doesn't matter, right?
🚀 Gentooshnik [OP] · Oct 07 at 08:03:
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Or just use markdown, since you already need a library or two to do comms and crypto, and just disallow things you don't like.
4.4.5 answers exactly your question:
— geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-4.gmi
@gentooshnik, I don't think it actually answers much if you read it carefully.
The lack of italic or oblique type is most frustrating
Italic type has been used for a long time to set off titles of works, whereas quotation marks identify the title of an article or section within a work. It also ruins the ability to set off foreign words within a body of type.
Italic can be swapped with underline, though I find it less aesthetically pleasing. But then... we don't have underline either.
I've found that missing feature a headache on many occasions since it's a part of type used to convey information as opposed to just calling attention. It makes it very annoying to reference other works.
— astrobotany.mozz.us/public/d042d6e56d684136ab0d07b128df0a50/m1
Rationale FAQ — If it doesn't exist already it should be created. There's a discussion at [https link] and people ask lots of questions about Gemtext. Most of them are obvious from the Gemini core design principles but some are not. Here are a few: Why no inline semantic markup? Like <strong> <emphasis> <a> etc. (Nobody actually misses things like fonts...