Comment by 🚀 Gentooshnik

=> Re: "Rationale FAQ" | In: s/Gemini

@stack

Or just use markdown, since you already need a library or two to do comms and crypto, and just disallow things you don't like.

4.4.5 answers exactly your question:

=> — geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-4.gmi

=> 🚀 Gentooshnik [OP]

2024-10-07 · 3 months ago

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=> 🚀 stack · Oct 07 at 16:22:

@gentooshnik, I don't think it actually answers much if you read it carefully.

=> 💎 pista · Oct 22 at 16:47:

The lack of italic or oblique type is most frustrating

Italic type has been used for a long time to set off titles of works, whereas quotation marks identify the title of an article or section within a work. It also ruins the ability to set off foreign words within a body of type.

Italic can be swapped with underline, though I find it less aesthetically pleasing. But then... we don't have underline either.

I've found that missing feature a headache on many occasions since it's a part of type used to convey information as opposed to just calling attention. It makes it very annoying to reference other works.

Original Post

=> 🌒 s/Gemini | — astrobotany.mozz.us/public/d042d6e56d684136ab0d07b128df0a50/m1

Rationale FAQ — If it doesn't exist already it should be created. There's a discussion at [https link] and people ask lots of questions about Gemtext. Most of them are obvious from the Gemini core design principles but some are not. Here are a few: Why no inline semantic markup? Like etc. (Nobody actually misses things like fonts...

=> 💬 Gentooshnik · 43 comments · 2024-10-05 · 3 months ago