[Tech][Idea]Link syntax

[Omar Polo]

Rev. Fr. Robert Bower <frrobert at frrobert.com> writes:

> This is an idea I have pondered for awhile and the deurbanizing thread got me thinking about it again.
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> Gemini document syntax in many ways uses a subset of markdown.  The exception being the syntax for links.
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> Would it not be advantageous for content creators for Gemini to support both the standard Gemini syntax of => for links and also support the []() markdown syntax for links, limited to links on their own line?
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> I also think it would be great if markdown also supported both syntaxes.
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> I am picturing a set of documents that could be delivered via Gemini as Gemini documents or delivered as markdown documents which then could be viewed as html or pdf.
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> This may just be crazy but I thought I would throw it out there.

I think this was discussed before, but one of the core point of
text/gemini is the idea of line types: each line has a type and there
aren't inline objects.

It's weird at first, but after a while it becomes better than inline
links IMHO.  Yes, one needs to adjust the style of the writing because
cluttering the paragraphs of [0], ¹, etc isn't that great.  This article
makes some good points in that regard:

	gemini://idiomdrottning.org/re-why-u-no-gemini

Said that, this doesn't stop you from serving markdown, pdfs or anything
else over gemini.  Just call your file .md instead of .gmi and use
inline links etc...

HTH