Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are disappointing

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From: bunburya <bunburya@tilde.club>

Subject: Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are disappointing

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:24:14 +0000

Message-ID: <ssn5du$8k1$1@gioia.aioe.org>

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On 23/01/2022 16:58, Luca Saiu wrote:

> To me the lack of control on preformatted text is more serious than the

> lack of inline links, possibly because of the technical topics I

> normally write about.

>

> Not being able to display source code clearly is a fatal flaw for me;

> and notice how Gopher is less flawed than Gemini in this sense, by

> virtue of being less abstract.

What is the issue you are having with pre-formatted text? Line numbering

and syntax highlighting are the main things that come to mind - I think

these could be achieved on the client side, though I'm not aware of any

client that currently does so. (I know there was some discussion of

syntax highlighting in pre-formatted text on the mailing list a while

ago; the majority view seemed to be that the alt text part of the

pre-formatted text block could indicate the language, though some

disagreed with using alt text in that way).

> How do you, and other people here, solve the problem? Do you write

> sites accessible only to Gemini or only to Gopher?

Personally I publish only to Gemini; however, I write very little anyway

(really just my gemlog, which is not updated all that often) so I don't

claim to be any kind of example to follow.

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Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are disappointing (by Luca Saiu <luca@ageinghacker.net> on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:58:18 +0100)

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Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are disappointing (by Luca Saiu <luca@ageinghacker.net> on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:25:29 +0100)

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Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are disappointing (by Luca Saiu <luca@ageinghacker.net> on Wed, 26 Jan 2022 01:10:59 +0100)