Inspired by a comment by kensanata in #gemini@tilde.chat, I want to try to use Sperrsatz/spärrning for emphasis:
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_(typography)#Letter-spacing
I raised the issue of words being split in the middle, but there’s a plethora of unicode spaces, and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE seems to be the best suited for this.
So now we can really e m p h a s i z e words again!
Re-reading the IRC conversation, I’ve realized that this entire thing was mine, kensanata is blameless!
Idiomdrottning very kindly calls this a “proposal” which gives me way too much credit. She also warns that it won’t always be handled well by screenreaders.
=> Against Faux Sperrsatz Emphasis
(As an aside, there’s nothing “faux” about this. From what I can glean, this is exactly what Sperrsatz was, because Fraktur typefaces didn’t have italics or bold. The non-breaking space ensure the word won’t be broken in the middle, and the narrow width is also correct.)
But, she is correct in saying that Sperrsatz is a terrible way to signal emphasis. This post is a bit of a joke, poking fun at the almost utter lack of semantic signaling in gemtext. No-one would be happier than me if the community could agree that words within asterisks would be equivalent to the tag in HTML, while words within underscores would be , and we could rely on clients (and screenreaders!) to interpret them as such.
Perhaps this will come in time.
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