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

[solderpunk]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:00:59PM -0500, Michael Lazar wrote:
 
> To be clear, I agree with you that a max line length shouldn't be enforced by
> the spec. I support the current wording of SHOULD as opposed to MUST. I'm more
> talking about establishing a recommended best practice. Gemini files with lines
> over N characters long should still be considered "valid" and must be accepted
> by any gemini client. They might just look a little funky depending on how
> sophisticated your client is.

Oh, absolutely.  All this discussion about hard wrapping at 40 chars is
firmly in the real of best practice recommendation.

> The spec-spec as written right now says that all gemini lines should be
> formatted so that they can reflowed by clients if the client chooses to do so.
> That spec has been almost unanimously rejected by current gemini servers, in
> favor of hard wrapping at 70-80 characters.

The current spec-spec says that clients can reflow long lines if they
want to, but it doesn't place any obligation on authors or servers to
actually provide long lines.

Cheers,
Solderpunk