Gemtext is great...

[bie]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 09:45:57PM -0800, peteyboy at sdf.org wrote:
> I vote we leave it alone. I had all these ideas when I saw it, too, but it's really just fine as it is. As others have said, gemtext isn't the only doc format if it doesn't work for you. But for what it does, I think the design arguments ended up in a totally sweet spot for writing gemtext pages by hand.

Agreed! Adding escape characters or (especially!) inline markup would not
only make implementations more complex, it would make writing gemtext
harder to read and write, too.
I just don't feel like the trade-off is worth it. Gemtext currently
feels like a very "human" format - and even something as minor as an escape
character would move it out of that category, IMO... 🤔

bie