Split the spec into two

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Tue May 26 22:22:43 BST 2020


On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 05:18:34PM -0400, Natalie Pendragon wrote:
 
> A small additional idea - would you be open to hosting a `text/gemini`
> version? I can definitely see the merit of the `text/plain` version,
> for maximum ease of distribution, so maybe this is just asking for
> trouble to host two versions, but I do feel at this point in Gemini,
> most folks are probably consuming the Gemini spec in a Gemini browser,
> within which readability would be substantially enhanced by even just
> the addition of a bit of the usual client header line handling (would
> you look at that, Gemini supports three levels of it, and now we only
> *have* three levels of it in the spec :).

Yes, I'd like to do this!  I've been meaning to write some quick little
scripts to convert text/gemini to text/plain (mostly just a matter of
wrapping to 80 columns) and to text/html, so I can move to maintaining
the spec, FAQ, etc. in text/gemini and automate the mirroring to Gopher
and HTTPS.  It will happen one day! :)

Cheers,
Solderpunk

PS: Or has somebody already written these tools?


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