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

Michael Lazar lazar.michael22 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 04:58:48 GMT 2020


On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:21 PM solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:03:28AM -0500, Michael Lazar wrote:
> > Here are some other alternatives that
> > might be worth considering. I do think
> > that displaying gemini links is a valid
> > use-case, but adding a whole new
> > preformatted text mode only for this
> > narrow case feels a bit heavy-handed to
> > me. Granted, I realize there are other
> > benefits to the preformatted mode that
> > have already been outlined.
>
> ...
>
> Ultimately I don't think I like either of these alternatives as much as
> the ``` syntax, but I'm happy to hear others' thoughts...
>
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk

Thanks for your response. After seeing
everything laid out in front of me, I
think I agree with you and I like your
proposal the best.

I wanted to visualize what this would
look like on mobile, so  I hacked up my
Gemini-HTTPS proxy to render the ```
markdown syntax. Here are some example
pages:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/mozz.us/files/aaatutorial.gmi?reflow=2
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/mozz.us/files/flask_mega_tutorial_part_2.gmi?reflow=2

I think they look quite nice!

- mozz


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