Today I have just discovered another Gemini 馃拵
This is something I have been thinking a lot but never have found time to dedicate to.
A super cool dude is bringing "public domain" books into the Gemini Space and he/she is making them available for all!
I have to say the result is astonishing on Lagrange Android!
The GemText has, again, demonstrated very well how much is suitable for a minimal but yet elegant typesetting composition!
Please enjoy "The Locrian Zone Library" :
gemini://gemini.locrian.zone/library/index.gmi
2 years ago 路 馃憤 bencollver, lykso, toast, devyl, obspogon, xandra, skyjake
[1] gemini://gemini.locrian.zone/library/index.gmi
@november I added your Library on my homepage! =D 路 now 路 2 years ago
This is great, I had this idea (I was just going to automate scripted conversion of Project Gutenberg) but never had time to execute. Great use case for Gemini. 路 2 years ago
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It is the perfect option to offer content accessible and available for all: it provides enough information while avoid to the authors to invest too much time and effort.
For instance I am preparing as many others an essay, I am going to promote it here as free-culture, but I planned to create a curated version to sell as epub (with all the typography power unleashed).
The other point that is quite underrated is the resiliency, GemText doesn't need a Gemini Client in order to be read. GemText is a format that might be sent into the past as well as into the future and olders and newer computers will be always able to open and read it! 路 2 years ago
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GemText comes with many limitations: only 7 different lines; from which 1 is reseverd for links, there fore only 6 lines are available for tipography: text (1); preformatted toggles(2); preformatted (3); Headers (4); quotation (5) and unordered list(6);
All of them just work at the beginning of each line determining which line must become. In few words you can only change the look of the whole lines.
It is clearly a compromise we lose in terms of text reachness but we gain in terms of resiliency. The inherent semplicity let the text flushing along the vieweport much better than anything else format.
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@november Nice! Great job!
I really love typogrqphy, it is slightly just younger than mankind; the fact the modern internet threw everything into shit doesn't change the fact that typography is gorgeous.
CSS/Javascprit/SVG(XML) abused of typography so much that today is one the many annoying thing related with modern web.
Epub(XML) is enough good and allows granular control over the text, however is pretty prone to errors, so far the majorities of my ebooks have small issues here and there. In other words is extremely complicated.
Does GemText make better than the current "standards" ?
Yes and no; if we use the current standards paramaters.
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wow!! so cool! thank you for making it @november! i, too, wish gemtext had italics if we could only pick one for emphasis. maybe someday. :) just one!!! xD 路 2 years ago
Aw, thanks! That's my capsule :) Copying over public domain books has made me pretty sad that Gemtext doesn't have italics, but aside from that it's been a fun little project. I'm glad you enjoy it! 路 2 years ago