Escaping Gemtext

[Sandra Snan]

If you go to four spaces you'll become compatible with markdown ← not
necessarily worth it! Don't shoot the messenger on this one ♥

Paper <paper at tilde.institute> writes:

> I am building a feed reader, so I am outputting plain text which can
> contain some gemtext markup. I want to print it, but the client
> shouldn't consider it a gemini markup. I could return "text/plain", but
> I need some gemini formatting in the same page. After some discussion on
> IRC yesterday, we found three approaches:
>
> 1. putting preformatting toggle lines before and after the user input
> ```
> user input
> ```
> - 10 more characters for each line (6 normal characters + 2x\r + 2x\n)
> - if user inputs ```, all content under it will have preformatting toggle
>   reversed
> + supported in all clients
>
> 2. putting a single space in front of the user input
>  user input
> + only 1 line
> + supported in all clients
> - shifts the entire user input one character to the right
>
> 3. putting a single unicode invisible space in front of the user input
> ‎user input
> + doesn't change the horizontal position of the text
> - I am not sure what clients without support for outputting UTF-8 text
>   will do with it
>
> For now, I think the second option is best for me, am I missing some
> options?
>
> Paper