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

Aaron Janse aaron at ajanse.me
Fri Dec 13 00:36:29 GMT 2019
> I can't believe how simple that is. A leading space for fixed content is
> ridiculously simple. I love it.

> I acknowledge that this solution is not perfect and e.g. won't gracefully
> handle bulleted lists with items which are more than one line long

We could avoid this problem if we treat lines starting with spaces as a way
to force a line break. This would cause code to not wrap, as desired, and it
allows for wrapping lists simply by not putting a space in the 2nd+ lines.

Example:

* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo.
* Consequat duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

As a bonus, this could be a way to represent 80+ column lines (maybe very long
links) without having 80+ column gemini source code (which makes life easier
for simple clients).

Maybe someone already said all of this. If they did, sorry for being repetitive.


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