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Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Wed Jan 15 05:21:17 GMT 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Michael Lazar once stated:
> 
> Option 1. Use a no-op link
> 
> Pick a URL that by convention doesn't
> lead anywhere useful, and then hijack
> the (link friendly name) portion to
> display your gemini link.
> 
> =
># =
>/about.txt About
> 
> "#" is a valid relative URL, right?
> Somebody else on this list *cough* sean
> might be able to some up with something
> better. 

  Who?  Me?  Wait!  Did you ask for two examples of a pronoun?  

  Anyway, yes '#' is a vaild URL, or at least, it passes through my URLparser.  And it's a cute work around.

> This would be displayed on
> most gemini clients as:
> 
> =
>/about.txt About
> 
> The line would be highlighted as a link
> (unless clients choose to handle this
> special case), but otherwise it should
> work without any changes to the spec.
> 
> Option 2. Use text/plain

  Option 3, Use text/markdown.  RFCs 7763 and 7764.  

  Other than that, I don't really ha much of a horse in this particularrace.

  -spc