Markdown and Gemini

[James Tomasino]

>From IRC:

<solene> I'm on a quite fun project I'll write about soon. I rewrote a
minimalism markup system, it's markdown but only with titles and code
blocks supports :D the html converter is 18 lines of awk (1 instruction
/ line)

For those unfamiliar, solene is an openbsd developer and posts here:
gopher://dataswamp.org/1/~solene

She's not working on Gemini, but this mini-markup she's developing may
prove useful for folks writing clients. As we've discussed, it probably
doesn't make sense to support the full markdown spec (even if you can
choose one flavor). Her micro-version might be handy.

Also, many have said they don't want to translate to HTML for rendering,
which makes sense for most applications. Regardless, her awk parsing
will be a helpful aid to anyone looking to write their own.

I've informed her about potential Gemini applications and she said
she'll be sharing her code soon. I'll post a link to the list when it
comes up.

- tomasino