👽 valvin

Having formating issue and read this in Gemini specification:

Note also that consecutive non-blank text lines do not form any kind of coherent unit or block such as a "paragraph": all text lines are independent entities.

And since I've started gemini I'm happy to set a 80 characters text width in my editor.

I have now the explanation why I see some formatting issues on my capsule depending the browser or the tool which parsed it.

2 years ago · 👍 moggy, birabittoh

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👽 eph

@birabittoh, ah yes, I see what you mean. · 2 years ago

👽 birabittoh

@eph because then i would have to handle text wrapping myself and that would not look good on all screens *sigh* · 2 years ago

👽 eph

@birabittoh, why not use preformatted text and format it like a quote? e.g.

At atrociously high energy states, the properties of matter change subtly and new miracles become possible. 
The Plasma Accretion process is now dangerous and difficult to control, but its products will soon become commonplace in our society.
— Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Lord Works"

· 2 years ago

👽 birabittoh

what I mean is something like

<<<the linux freedoms

1. first freedom

2. second feeedom

3. etc.

>> · 2 years ago

👽 birabittoh

Yeah, I think multiline citations should be suppprted. I was citing the list of user freedoms in the GNU website once and I noticed it looks so bad on some browser. Wish we could have a quotation block like for preformatted text... · 2 years ago

👽 ew0k

@eph as it should be ❤️ · 2 years ago

👽 moggy

This one thing about Gemini I don't like. I don't use line breaks at 80 characters but I do like to put each sentence on its own line. It makes it easy to re-arrange your sentences when you're editing and most markup formats join them into a single paragraph anyway. With Gemini that's suddenly not possible :( · 2 years ago

👽 eph

I never break my lines at 80 characters when I'm writing gemtext; that is, I leave it up to the client to display the text as it prefers. · 2 years ago