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A proposed scheme for parsing preformatted alt text

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri Sep 11 20:57:48 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Nathan Galt once stated:

On Sep 11, 2020, at 12:44 AM, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
Okay, check out
gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat-2.gemini
Much better.
I don’t know if “image” before the ASCII-art images is, or would be,
useful to anything.

It would prevent a screen reader from reading "circumflex circumflex nextline slash backslash slash slash backslash nextline ..."

It seems a little weird to see “ code Lua” instead of “lua”, and I don’t
know how easy it would be to adjust syntax-coloring libraries to account
for this, but this nitpick is largely immaterial.

Do you really want a client to have to list all these languages?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

At least with the prefix "code" the client can know it's source code, evenif it doesn't what the language is. And having the language can let aclient syntax highlight for those languages it does know. That was myreasoning.

Like with the last one, thanks for making a concrete example.

You're welcome.

-spc