[spec] Ambiguity with regards to quote lines

[alex wennerberg]

On Sun Jan 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM PST, ew.gemini wrote:
> > In order to take full advantage of this method of text formatting, authors of
> > text/gemini content SHOULD avoid hard-wrapping to a specific fixed width, in
> > contrast to the convention in Gopherspace where text is typically wrapped at 80
> > characters or fewer.  Instead, text which should be displayed as a contiguous
> > block should be written as a single long line.
>
> => gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
>
>
> A line is "one" line. So "one line" starting with ">" and
> optional space is a quote and is rendered as one block.
> Email type quotes with ">" on every line, happen to be
> subsequent blocks in gemini layout.
>
> At least that is what I understand.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ew

This makes sense to me. Maybe a note could be added to the sepc about
this, since its somewhat unintuitive, e.g. different than how quote
lines work in email, etc.  Lagrange, for example, considers subsequent
quote lines as par of a block quote.

This came up when I was quoting song lyrics. A solution I suppose would
be to use a preformatted block (that's how I've encouraged my poet
friend to write whitespace-aware stanzas)

Alex