A proposed scheme for parsing preformatted alt text

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Nathan Galt once stated:
> 
> > On Sep 10, 2020, at 5:30 PM, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  I added the following non-standard document:
> > 
> > 	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat.gemini
> > 
> > that contains "machine readable text" at the opening preformatted marker,
> > and a "human readable text" on the ending preformatted marker, just to give
> > an indication of what it might look like and what might be done with it. 
> > Enough talk, *someone* has to do an implementation to scare the bejeezus out
> > of everyone (not that it's particularly scary in what I did).
> > 
> >  -spc (HTML people.  Seriously, HTML.  You want your format, you have it
> > 	already ... )
> 
> I like sets of concrete examples. Thanks for whipping this up.
> 
> What I dislike about this style of “‘machine-readable’ text up top” (for
> some definition of “machine-readable”) is that the alt-text function has
> been entirely obliterated, at least in these examples.
> 
> For the two code bits at the top of the page, the alt text should be the
> contents of the captions at the bottom of each.
> 
> For the three “images”, the alt-text should be something like:
> 
> - a dragon
> - Merry Christmas
> - a Christmas tree with a rabbit sitting near its base

  Okay, check out

	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat-2.gemini

  -spc (Taking away my fun with the alt-text ... )