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

[solderpunk]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:51:37PM +0100, Brian Evans wrote:

> So long as it is not a mandate, but an optional part of the spec, I
> withdraw my objection.

I don't intend anything to be mandatory except link lines, ordinary text
lines and possibly ``` raw/verbatim/preformatted handling (I'm not 100%
sure on that last one, I think perhaps switching to wrapped long lines
as the official recommendation removes many of the justifications we
had for first proposing it - though certainly not all of them).

Anything to do with headings, lists, etc. will be strictly optional, and
a major factor in whether I decide to adopt any of those things will be
how well they degrade when viewed on a simple terminal-based client
which completely ignores all optional components.

All I've ever wanted is to permit improvements to readability or
navigation in advanced (possibly, but not necessarily, graphical)
clients as much as possible without interfering in any non-trivial way
with the usability of incredibly simple clients.

Cheers,
Solderpunk