On text reflow. It's not about bullets!

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

> We cannot convey "this line is verbatim text which should not be
> reformatted at all" with a start-of-line marker like ==, because that
> marker will get picked up by the copy and paste, and almost certainly
> break the semantics of the code. Instead, there need to be lines which
> toggle on and off a verbatim mode, which a user of a simple client
> that does no formatting can simply not select before copying.

I agree with this. This is a case where considering the simplest
possible client implementation implies a more complex (in some sense)
markup specification.

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