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

[Brian Evans]

> 2. Many markdown documents have 500+ column lines (one paragraph per
>    newline). If we require that Gemini source code is hard-wrapped, users
>    couldn't copy-paste markdown into their gemini blog/site without
>    hard-wrapping first.

Why would they need to hard wrap it? It would be the client or terminal that would be required to follow the spec and hard wrap it, not the content creators. I think every current client hard wraps at least to window size (if not some other value). This makes it so that a user can have a 500+ column row and the client/terminal/browser/etc will wrap it for them, leaving nothing for the user to do but paste it into their document for it to be wrapped automatically. I would image that most clients that allow the saving of pages would retain the original document structure free of any modifications made by the wrap (though I suppose mileage may vary in that regard).


This text reflow thread has been quite the minefield over time. Who would have thought that this would be the big thing to figure out when all this started?