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       Thread[.post]: 35.3
       TACKER:  peteyboy (Pete)
       SUBJECT: .. text/enriched vs. gopher clients?
       DATE:    05-Mar-22 01:14:48
       HOST:    beastie
       
       The point of gemtext is that it is line-parseable, and that was a big 
       factor in the design of gemini (100 line client!)
       
       You can serve markdown with a gemini server, if you want.
       
       but it's really simple to write gemtext, the only real issue is no inline 
       emphasis and no inline links.
       
       No inline links is how gopher works anyway, except no one can argue that 
       gemini basically incorporating gophermaps into regular pages isn't a huge 
       improvement. I gave up on gopher because I couldn't see the point of 
       text-only (no link) pages, and trying to hand-write gophermap format made 
       was not fun for me. But gemtext is super simple!
       
       Also the gemtext heading format is now used in Rocketbook for page 
       title/filenames, which is cool to me.
       
       
       
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