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

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:16:27PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
>  
> >   Red alert!  Raise shields!  Strap in!  This is going to be a bumpy ride.
> 
> I'd have expected nothing less from you. :)  In fact, the very fact that
> felt this abrupt change of direction was worth careful nit-picking
> rather than dismisisng it with a fatal flaw up front is a plesant
> surprise!

  Well, I don't have very strong feelings about text formatting for Gemini.

  Also, anything that's been cleared up in subsequent emails will not be
addressed here as there's no need to clutter things up.

> >   Almost---tabs (and yes, I do use tabs---I like me the tabs) are an issue
> > and while I can handle them (I have code that will expand them up to 8
> > spaces) not everybody has code to deal with this.  So question:
> > 
> > 	WHAT ABOUT TABS?
> > 
> >   They WILL show up.
>  
> In headings???  I have no idea what to suggest regarding how to handle
> that.  Is this such a deranged edge case that we feel safe letting that
> behaviour be client-defined?

  Not necessarily in headers, but they will appear in Gemini files (I'm
thinking most likely in pre-formatted blocks).  The thing the clients have
to be aware of is that tabs take 1 character space, but can reference up to N
spaces (where N is typically 8, but can be arbitrary values per tab).

> Well, I guess a lot of your questions here are moot in light of my
> earlier post about the + syntax.

  They are, and I shall update my code accordingly.

> >   -spc (Will torture specs for food ...)
> 
> You'll never go hungry!

  Ha!

  -spc