Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Fri Sep 6 06:33:48 BST 2019
It was thus said that the Great Michael Lazar once stated:
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:05 AM solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:
> > Point ii) above is not going to change any time soon, in fact it's only
> > going to become increasingly common as time goes on, whether the
> > retrogrouches amongst us like it or not.  But point i) is just an
> > arbitrary convention and so entirely mutable.
> >
> > This raises the question: is there a number of characters at which
> > text/gemini content could be, by convention, wrapped by the author such
> > that it displays nicely on a majority of mobile devices whilst not
> > looking ridiculous on real displays?
> 
> I think this is a valid idea that is worth seriously considering. I actually
> went through the same train of thought about a week ago, but I held back from
> posting because wasn't entirely sure how I felt about it, and I'm
> simultaneously working on a proposal for a simplified markdown dialect for
> gemini [1].
> 
> [1] gemini://mozz.us/markdown/

  I read through those, and it appears that you generate an AST from the
markdown-like text, then run through that AST to generate HTML.  Is there
code to generate text output, or is that just the file itself?

  -spc



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