[SPEC-CHANGE] lang parameter, minor line type changes, clarifications...

[James Tomasino]

On 6/7/20 11:06 PM, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> For example, if a Gemini content author wanted to quote from a modern
> poem like T. S. Eliot's _The Waste Land_ and preserve the original
> formatting, would they do something like this?
> 
> ```
>> "What is that noise?"
>>                           The wind under the door.
>> "What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"
>>                            Nothing again nothing.
>>                                                         "Do
>> "You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
>> "Nothing?"
> ```
> 
> I suspect that most clients would interpret this block as just
> pre-formatted text and render it in monospace--which I acknowledge is
> correct behavior according to the current spec but not necessarily what
> a content author wants if they decide to load their own page to see how
> it looks in various clients.

Using the preformatted fences is exactly what you'd want to use. Your
example above would preserve whitespace. That's one of the main purposes
of the ```.

I don't understand the need for an additional line type from your
description.