Re: "Custom Text Formatting in Gemini?"

In: s/Gemini

You did not overlook it. Gemtext does not support italics, bold, or other inline formatting.

Popular workarounds are _underscoring_ or *asterisks*, or sometimes you can UPPERCASE a word for emphasis. In other words, you should rely on old-school ASCII formatting.

Please don't try to be clever and use Unicode math symbols even though they provide italic A-Z letters, because those have a specific intended usage and will almost certainly confuse screen reader software.

When publishing content that requires more sophisticated formatting on your own capsule, I recommend using Markdown as the primary format and trimming it down to Gemtext for an alternative/fallback format, for clients that don't support Markdown (i.e., most Gemini clients).

🌆 skyjake [mod, sysop]

2025-08-15 · 9 months ago

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💀 requiem · 2025-08-15 at 18:46:

You can use 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐃𝐄 thingℤ

edit: but Skyjake discourages it

🌒 s/Gemini

👤 0oinwmr2:

Custom Text Formatting in Gemini? — If I want to emphasize a segment within a text by displaying it in italics, how can I achieve this? Example: This sentence has one *word* displayed in italics. Did I overlook something in the documentation?

💬 3 comments · 2025-08-15 · 9 months ago