Markdown and Gemini

[Jason McBrayer]

Sean Conner writes:
>   The point here isn't to try to define a format, my point is to say
> it's a messy, difficult job with lots of people wanting different
> things. Anyway, I rambled on long enough ...

Thanks. This is a very useful contribution to the discussion, and to me
it suggests that maybe we are best off not defining any markup in
text/gemini other than links, but noting that text MAY be reflowed at
the client's discretion, meaning that you cannot rely on ASCII art or
ASCII tables working.

An aside not directly related to this:

I'm playing with writing a Gnome client, and my intention is for it to
support text/plain, text/gemini, and text/markdown natively, as well as
Gophernicus-flavored gophermaps. It's in Python, and the Python library
'mistletoe' supports returning an AST that I plan on using to do
formatting in a GtkTextView.

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