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

[Aaron Janse]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 7:10 AM, solderpunk wrote:
> But I realise that, actually, for the majority of people that's far
> *more* accessible.  Someone using something resembling Notepad is going
> to have a miserable time writing content hard-wrapped at 40 chars, while
> the "long line" format just happens, probably without them even realising
> it.

I do admit that you've nearly convinced me that 40 chars is easiest for
readers, even though I'm not sure if it's best if we consider authors, too.

> Then again, making text/gemini easy to write with "normal" editors
> arguably isn't worth much if the next step is anyway "now use sftp or a
> git push to get your content on the server".

In my experience, though, hard-wrapping text doesn't work well with git
anyway. And I don't know of any text editors that re-hard-wrap automatically
when the beginning of a paragraph is edited.

Maybe gemini files could be authored in either wrapped or unwrapped format,
then the server could hard-wrap intelligently before sending it to the
reader? Would that be bad practice?

Cheers!