Comment by 🌆 skyjake
Re: "Sorry if this has come up before... I'm confused about how…"
Thus authors are more-or-less compelled to insert additional spacing, because they can't assume that clients will.
That is basically it, yes. It's part and parcel of the compromises being made that favor easy implementability of a Gemtext parser and renderer. A client does not and should not need to worry about sophisticated text layout to be able to present Gemtext.
Apr 28 · 9 days ago
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🚀 lars_the_bear [OP] · Apr 28 at 14:42:
@skyjake : "A client does not and should not need to worry about sophisticated text layout to be able to present Gemtext."
There's nothing sophisticated about putting a bit of space after a paragraph. All that would have been needed was for the specification to say "clients should/should not treat text lines as paragraphs". That's it. Then everybody would know how to write, and clients would know how to behave.
Now we have a situation where most writers space their lines, but some don't, and clients can't render both adequately.
Original Post
Sorry if this has come up before... I'm confused about how use vertical spacing in Gemtext. In theory, there should be no need for any additional vertical space except in pre-formatted blocks, because Gemtext is line-based. If you write each paragraph on its own line, the client should be able to apply reasonable spacing to make it readable. And yet... many writers do insert additional blank lines, particularly below headings (Bubble does). If a client gives full weight to this extra spacing --…