Quoting

[Case Duckworth]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Luke Emmet wrote:
> Lets keep it simple please. Here are my 2p worth
> 
> For any quoting of the special line prefixes:
> 
> 1. put within a ``` section inside text/gemini
> 2. serve the content with text/plain then you can say what you want
> 3. for quoting ``` prefix with a space or intersperse with a space thus 
> ` ` ` (or variant thereof)
> 4. Use a link to a text/plain or whatever other rich format
> 
> text/gemini format does not have its own meta language in it. It is 
> supposed to be simple, if you need something else, use something else

I agree with this. I can't think of a use-case where describing text/gemini formatting within a text/gemini document will need to be so flexible so that what Luke suggests won't work. Even if we implemented complex quoting rules, it's simply impossible to round-trip example documents in their own markup. 

Besides, I think marking examples with ``` is useful because it essentially quotes the enclosed content as an example, as opposed to actual content. If you want to copy-paste Gemini content easily, just don't filter the content before passing it on to the client.

Maybe if a specific use-case could be given to where quoting would be important?

~ acdw