[ANN] md2gemini release v1.1.0 and gemini linking discussion

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

Hello Geminauts,

I've just released v1.1.0 of md2gemini[1], I hope you're all proud. ;)

I'm not just emailing to plug my project though. This new release adds
support for footnotes as an alternative way to handle inline links,
which markdown supports but text/gemini doesn't. You can see an example
of how these footnotes look in my email here. md2gemini will automatically
create footnotes for all your inline links in markdown, if you enable it.

md2gemini actually offers several linking options: breaking up the paragraph
to directly link, removing all links, footnotes at the end of each
paragraph, or footnotes at the end of the document - like my email.

There was some discussion in another thread about having inline links
in text/gemini, which solderpunk rejected because it would make
parsing much more difficult. I agree with him, and so I wonder what
others on this list think of my take on this. Does using footnotes make
sense? Are there better, or just different ways to do solve this problem?


1: https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/md2gemini

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