Poetry in Gemini

[acdw]

On 2021-01-25 (Monday) at 20:58, Miguel de Luis Espinosa <enteka at fastmail.com> wrote:

> Poetry is dear to my soul. And in the Big Bloated Web is a pain to set 
> it up properly. So, I resolved to explore it in Gemini. 
> 
> My first wee experiment is a pseudo-haiku Flor 4. This little poem or 
> something has five spaces at the start of the first line. And it's 
> displayed like that by amphora, However, the proxies I've tried 
> collapse those spaces. I suppose due to the way HTML and CSS behave by 
> default. 
> 
> => gemini://enteka.xyz/flor4.gemini

I've also had issues typesetting poetry in various markup languages; LaTeX has an alright mode but for HTML I use <pre style="font-family:serif;"> etc.  In fact, the only extension to the text/gemini format that I would imagine being behind would be a preformatted, but not monospaced font, block.  Not that that really makes any sense.

Anyway, when I've typeset poetry in Gemini I put the lines in between preformatting blocks -- at least that keeps the lines correctly spaced.

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