Bug reports: Multiple spaces in links; Cmd+S unreliable (was: Re: [ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client)

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:14 AM skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote:


> I recognize that in gemtext one cannot use spaces like this for alignment,
> while also permitting variable-width fonts and whitespace normalization.
> Nevertheless, I was curious about the idea of normalizing multiple spaces
> differently.


Another possibility would be to render a link name that contains more than
2 consecutive spaces in a monowidth font, the same one used for ``` mode.
That would be very clean, I think.

A simple rule of 8+ spaces becoming a tab character produced nice results:
>

That's worth keeping too.



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