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

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

> This proposal gets us an awful lot of bang for the buck.  For use cases
> where it just won't cut the mustard, it might be time to consider
> serving text/markdown over Gemini

Yeah. I think this is probably the least bad of the really simple
solutions. It keeps it simpler than using even Text Junior, but makes
the main use cases easy to handle.

> It might be a good idea for people to start experimenting with
> implementing this, so we can get an informed perspective on just how
> hard to implement this *really* is, and on how certain kinds of
> content renders.

I've not progressed on Voskhod, because of being sick and just busy at
home, but I'll probably implement these wrapping rules for text/gemini
before I implement support for text/markdown, once I get past fighting
with the build system to be able to debug stuff. It would be great for
Julien to have a go at implementing this in Asuka, since that's as far
as I know the only currently existing client that has an idea of its
screen width.

One question: should non-wrapped lines be rendered in a fixed-width
font, in a client that is capable of using both fixed-width and
proportional fonts?

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