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

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 11:24:44AM +0300, Frank LENORMAND wrote:
>  
> > How are clients supposed to render words that are censored with asterisks?
> 
> However they like!  But "verbatim" seems like the only sensible option.
> 
> > The spec was modified to make sure clients understand the above isn't a
> > bullet item. Therefore writers are indirectly allowed by the standard to
> > influence the rendering, otherwise there would have been no conflict to
> > address in the first place.
> 
> I really don't follow you here.  Writers are of course *allowed* to put
> asterisks around their words if they want to but this doesn't imply that
> they should expect clients to do anything in particular with that
> information.  People use asterisks to emphasise words when writing
> plain text content for Gopher where they know for sure that clients
> won't do anything with it.

  A graphical Gemini browser *might* render text between astericks with
italicised or bold text, to *emphasize* the emphasis that astericks imply.
A text based Gemini browser might instead decide to bold or recolor the
text, again to emphasize the emphasis.

  -spc