#gemtext — Public Fediverse posts

My mostly specific Markdown to Gemtext converting to copy my Zola site into a decent Gemini capsule is coming along. Once I do get most of it converted I won't have to keep doing this since writing Gemtext by hand is as easy as Markdown.

#GeminiProtocol #Gemtext #Zola #Markdown

Snagged blainsmith.space for my Gemini capsule. Now to convert my site context to gemtext and get it uploaded.

#GeminiProtocol #gemtext

Snagged blainsmith.space for my Gemini capsule. Now to convert my site context to gemtext and get it uploaded.

#GeminiProtocol #gemtext

Snagged blainsmith.space for my Gemini capsule. Now to convert my site context to gemtext and get it uploaded.

#GeminiProtocol #gemtext

Snagged blainsmith.space for my Gemini capsule. Now to convert my site context to gemtext and get it uploaded.

#GeminiProtocol #gemtext

Snagged blainsmith.space for my Gemini capsule. Now to convert my site context to gemtext and get it uploaded.

#GeminiProtocol #gemtext

On last year's annual Gemini Protocol blog announcement thing, Solderpunk says

I continue to receive, and to apply, patches to the geminiprotocol.net repository correcting errors in the official documentation or adding translations of into diverse languages

On last year's annual Gemini Protocol blog announcement thing, Solderpunk says

I continue to receive, and to apply, patches to the geminiprotocol.net repository correcting errors in the official documentation or adding translations of into diverse languages

On last year's annual Gemini Protocol blog announcement thing, Solderpunk says

I continue to receive, and to apply, patches to the geminiprotocol.net repository correcting errors in the official documentation or adding translations of into diverse languages

On last year's annual Gemini Protocol blog announcement thing, Solderpunk says

I continue to receive, and to apply, patches to the geminiprotocol.net repository correcting errors in the official documentation or adding translations of into diverse languages

On last year's annual Gemini Protocol blog announcement thing, Solderpunk says

I continue to receive, and to apply, patches to the geminiprotocol.net repository correcting errors in the official documentation or adding translations of into diverse languages

Fun fact: The gemtext markup language does not officially have "comments," but there IS a way to embed messages in the source that aren't rendered.

Any line which starts with three backwards apostrophes swaps between preformatted mode and normal mode.

When entering preformatted mode, any text which comes after the backwards apostrophes is the alt-text for the preformatted block.

On the other hand, when exiting preformatted mode, the spec says

Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line MUST be ignored by clients.

Fun fact: The gemtext markup language does not officially have "comments," but there IS a way to embed messages in the source that aren't rendered.

Any line which starts with three backwards apostrophes swaps between preformatted mode and normal mode.

When entering preformatted mode, any text which comes after the backwards apostrophes is the alt-text for the preformatted block.

On the other hand, when exiting preformatted mode, the spec says

Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line MUST be ignored by clients.

Fun fact: The gemtext markup language does not officially have "comments," but there IS a way to embed messages in the source that aren't rendered.

Any line which starts with three backwards apostrophes swaps between preformatted mode and normal mode.

When entering preformatted mode, any text which comes after the backwards apostrophes is the alt-text for the preformatted block.

On the other hand, when exiting preformatted mode, the spec says

Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line MUST be ignored by clients.

Fun fact: The gemtext markup language does not officially have "comments," but there IS a way to embed messages in the source that aren't rendered.

Any line which starts with three backwards apostrophes swaps between preformatted mode and normal mode.

When entering preformatted mode, any text which comes after the backwards apostrophes is the alt-text for the preformatted block.

On the other hand, when exiting preformatted mode, the spec says

Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line MUST be ignored by clients.

Fun fact: The gemtext markup language does not officially have "comments," but there IS a way to embed messages in the source that aren't rendered.

Any line which starts with three backwards apostrophes swaps between preformatted mode and normal mode.

When entering preformatted mode, any text which comes after the backwards apostrophes is the alt-text for the preformatted block.

On the other hand, when exiting preformatted mode, the spec says

Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line MUST be ignored by clients.

Working on a tool to convert my #Zola site content to #Gemini since I can push my capsule of .gmi files to #Sourcehut and it will serve it for me.

gemini://srht.site/quickstart.gmi

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmolWeb

Working on a tool to convert my #Zola site content to #Gemini since I can push my capsule of .gmi files to #Sourcehut and it will serve it for me.

gemini://srht.site/quickstart.gmi

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmolWeb

Working on a tool to convert my #Zola site content to #Gemini since I can push my capsule of .gmi files to #Sourcehut and it will serve it for me.

gemini://srht.site/quickstart.gmi

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmolWeb

Working on a tool to convert my #Zola site content to #Gemini since I can push my capsule of .gmi files to #Sourcehut and it will serve it for me.

gemini://srht.site/quickstart.gmi

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmolWeb

Working on a tool to convert my #Zola site content to #Gemini since I can push my capsule of .gmi files to #Sourcehut and it will serve it for me.

gemini://srht.site/quickstart.gmi

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmolWeb

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

#Markdown has horrible edge cases and despite the valiant effort of #CommonMark, the dialects seem to diverge and multiply over time. I consider switching my personal stuff to #djot where possible: https://djot.net/

Ideas:
- Stop working on #smu https://github.com/karlb/smu and maintain either https://github.com/karlb/cdjot or https://github.com/karlb/minipandoc instead
- Use https://github.com/karlb/gemtext.lua to generate #gemtext (for #geminiprotocol instead of the unmaintained https://github.com/karlb/md2gemini

Thoughts?

#Markdown has horrible edge cases and despite the valiant effort of #CommonMark, the dialects seem to diverge and multiply over time. I consider switching my personal stuff to #djot where possible: https://djot.net/

Ideas:
- Stop working on #smu https://github.com/karlb/smu and maintain either https://github.com/karlb/cdjot or https://github.com/karlb/minipandoc instead
- Use https://github.com/karlb/gemtext.lua to generate #gemtext (for #geminiprotocol instead of the unmaintained https://github.com/karlb/md2gemini

Thoughts?

#Markdown has horrible edge cases and despite the valiant effort of #CommonMark, the dialects seem to diverge and multiply over time. I consider switching my personal stuff to #djot where possible: https://djot.net/

Ideas:
- Stop working on #smu https://github.com/karlb/smu and maintain either https://github.com/karlb/cdjot or https://github.com/karlb/minipandoc instead
- Use https://github.com/karlb/gemtext.lua to generate #gemtext (for #geminiprotocol instead of the unmaintained https://github.com/karlb/md2gemini

Thoughts?

I completely rewrote my gemtext_to_html converter from scratch, it was great!

I use it a lot for myself, but it should work for others too. If you need a program like that, you can have a look. It only needs a C compiler, no dependency.

The code is here. There is some doc and the code itself should be quite readable.

- https://codeberg.org/sroccaserra/gemtext-to-html

Cheers!

#code #c #gemtext

Hugo is becoming my favorite static site generator.

It really only took a few minutes to make it generate pages in the Gemini hypertext format (“gemtext”). Now you can read my blog in a wonderfully obscure way on the other, lesser known Internet:

gemini://tilde.pink/~johl/

#hugo #gemini #gemtext

I've added a #PlainText exporter to my bespoke #StaticSiteGenerator.

Most pages on my site now have .txt counterparts, which for now you can access by appending the extension to the URL directly, e.g. https://balintmagyar.com/colophon.txt

I'd like to look into hosting #GeminiProtocol and/or #Gopher mirrors of my site at some point, and this felt like a logical step towards that. Shout out to @fab for the inspiration!

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #SmolWeb #SSG #GemText

Auf dem @luki Treffen hat @emk #Lowmark vorgestellt: Einen #PHP-#StaticSiteGenerator mit dem Ziel, ihn so einfach wie möglich zu machen.

Einen schönes, pädagogisches #LowTech #SmallWeb Ziel.

Passt zum #Gemini Protocol, bei dem das Designziel ist, dass es jeder (der eine Programmiersprache kann) in ein paar Dutzend Zeilen implementieren kann. Deswegen ist #Gemtext sogar noch einfacher als #Markdown.

https://geminiprotocol.net

Auf dem @luki Treffen hat @emk #Lowmark vorgestellt: Einen #PHP-#StaticSiteGenerator mit dem Ziel, ihn so einfach wie möglich zu machen.

Einen schönes, pädagogisches #LowTech #SmallWeb Ziel.

Passt zum #Gemini Protocol, bei dem das Designziel ist, dass es jeder (der eine Programmiersprache kann) in ein paar Dutzend Zeilen implementieren kann. Deswegen ist #Gemtext sogar noch einfacher als #Markdown.

https://geminiprotocol.net

Auf dem @luki Treffen hat @emk #Lowmark vorgestellt: Einen #PHP-#StaticSiteGenerator mit dem Ziel, ihn so einfach wie möglich zu machen.

Einen schönes, pädagogisches #LowTech #SmallWeb Ziel.

Passt zum #Gemini Protocol, bei dem das Designziel ist, dass es jeder (der eine Programmiersprache kann) in ein paar Dutzend Zeilen implementieren kann. Deswegen ist #Gemtext sogar noch einfacher als #Markdown.

https://geminiprotocol.net

Auf dem @luki Treffen hat @emk #Lowmark vorgestellt: Einen #PHP-#StaticSiteGenerator mit dem Ziel, ihn so einfach wie möglich zu machen.

Einen schönes, pädagogisches #LowTech #SmallWeb Ziel.

Passt zum #Gemini Protocol, bei dem das Designziel ist, dass es jeder (der eine Programmiersprache kann) in ein paar Dutzend Zeilen implementieren kann. Deswegen ist #Gemtext sogar noch einfacher als #Markdown.

https://geminiprotocol.net

Auf dem @luki Treffen hat @emk #Lowmark vorgestellt: Einen #PHP-#StaticSiteGenerator mit dem Ziel, ihn so einfach wie möglich zu machen.

Einen schönes, pädagogisches #LowTech #SmallWeb Ziel.

Passt zum #Gemini Protocol, bei dem das Designziel ist, dass es jeder (der eine Programmiersprache kann) in ein paar Dutzend Zeilen implementieren kann. Deswegen ist #Gemtext sogar noch einfacher als #Markdown.

https://geminiprotocol.net

@brunobord

Ce qui me gêne avec les sites web sans CSS, c’est qu’ils ne prennent pas en compte les besoins des lecteurs en termes de lisibilité : longueur des lignes, interlignage… Le #gemtext, c’est aussi du texte au kilomètre, mais les bons clients #gemini permettent de régler ces paramètres, là où les navigateurs web s’en remettent précisément aux CSS.

C’est pourquoi je préfère de beaucoup le principe du « smolweb » proposé par @adele :

https://smolweb.org

@zyegfryed @ploum

As of today, all articles in the new Pandora's Tale Wiki have been fully converted to text/gemini.

There are still a few more formatting changes I want to do before I can declare the new wiki better than the old one.

Notably, the website for the git repository does not actually render gemtext. Gemtext is very close to plain text, so the articles are still legible, but eventually I want to set things up so that you can actually view the articles rendered in either a web browser or a gemini browser.

#PandorasTaleWiki #PandorasTale #Wikiverse #Geminispace #Geminiprotocol #Gemtext #Git

@river

I mainly use Lagrange and Kristall clients, and they handle relative links perfectly.

#gemtext #GeminiProtocol

Huh, that was easier than I thought it would be.

I converted the majority of MediaWiki formatting to Markdown or Gemtext, including all the templates and tables.

The big things remaining are internal links. I wrote a hacky script to convert wiki links into markdown links. The external links worked, but, due to a variety of issues I couldn't figure out, the majority of internal links came out broken.
(And by "Broken", I don't mean the book
https://git.average.name/1something/PTW/src/branch/trunk/Main/Volume%201:%20Broken.gmi
or the storyline
https://git.average.name/1something/PTW/src/branch/trunk/Main/Storylines/Broken.md
)

I think I am going to have to convert most links manually. Closely tied to this task is the big decision I have to make: do I want to use markdown or gemtext? Links are the major incompatibility between the two formats.

There are still many Things to Do to make the wiki a great reference, but we are making progress.

#PandorasTaleWiki #MediaWiki #Broken #Git #Markdown #Gemtext

RE: https://transgirl.cafe/notes/a76p9zv0io9200bo

The very first content article of Pandora's Tale Wiki was the list of characters. It actually predates the wiki: the character table started as a spreadsheet when I was preparting for the first Pandora's Tale Character Tournament.

When I created the Fandom version of PTW, one of the first things I did was convert the table into a MediaWiki article.

That article uses MediaWiki-specific features. Namely, it uses PAGESINCATEGORY to display the number of chapters each character appears in.

Today, I have finished converting the character appearances table to gemtext. I had it in Markdown, but I realized I wasn't even using any markdown-specific features. Gemtext (and Forgejo's Markdown) lack tables, so I used plain text tables. (That's the format that @[email protected] used to hate until I single-handedly won them over.)

I also have a Python script for updating the number of character appearances automatically.

https://git.average.name/1something/PTW/src/branch/trunk/Main/Characters.gmi

There's a long way to go to finish converting the wiki, but I'm hopeful I will be able to do it.

#PandorasTaleWiki #PandorasTale #PandorasTaleCharacterTournament #Gemtext

#ayuda fediverso #gemini
Algún conversor de #html a #gemtext recomendable?
@sl1200

Se agradece #boost

@raek

it sems like you could write everything in #orgmode and export to #gemtext and #markdown.

I use and old school tool called #gssg that puts the #GeminiCapsule together. I bet the same could be done for markdown.

How are you hosting your markdown site?

Can you share your blog and gemlog links?

Also related:
https://en.osm.town/@contrapunctus/114051839418447718

I have heard many other people voice their desire for inline-links and images (and complain about it lacking from Gemini's Gemtext), but — this is the first time I've seen interactive-maps come up.

Which is interesting.

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #Gemtext

On gemini-protocol and user-experience (UX).

RE: https://en.osm.town/@contrapunctus/114037111350443885

#GeminiProtocol #GemText #SmallNet #SmallWeb #UX

Today, I am announcing plans for the biggest change to Pandora's Tale Wiki since its founding: I am going to port the wiki away from MediaWiki and convert it to a git repository of text files. This conversion process may not be easy, but it is necessary. If we continue down the current path, I am going to burn out and will not be able to continue maintaining the wiki. I have described the reasons for the change in the article for Project: Texts About Pandora
https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/Pandora%27s_Tale_Wiki:Texts_About_Pandora#Hosting_availability

(Yes, the name of the article is a pun on the pages "Texts from Pandora" and "Texts from Pandora 2".)
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora/
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora-2/

There are still some things I need to determine.

1) First and most significantly, I have to figure out how to convert a MediaWiki instance into a git repository. I've found several scripts which claim to do it, but they all seem to have significant drawbacks in addition to being unmaintained. I would greatly appreciate advice from computer creatures in this regard.

2) Then I have to decide on the text format: Plaintext, gemtext, or markdown? There are ups and downs to each of them, though I'm not as worried since I believe it might be possible to convert between them later.

3) Finally I have to decide on the hosting software and platform if I want anyone else to be able to read it. Gitlab, Forgejo, sourcehut, or something else?

Once I answer these questions, I am going to move Pandora's Tale Wiki to a git repository, and then I will ask Miraheze to shut down their copy of the wiki. I don't know how long this process will take, but I believe it's the only way I can continue the wiki.


#PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #ComicsByXan #Webcomics #Homestuck #MSPaintAdventures #Miraheze #Wiki #Wikis #WebcomicWiki #MediaWiki #Git #PlainText #GemText #GeminiProtocol #Markdown #MD #SourceHut #srht #Forgejo #Gitlab

🚀️ rst2gemtext v0.4.0 released!

rst2gemtext is a CLI tool and a #Python library to convert #reStructuredText to #Gemtext (the markup language used by #Gemini network).

➡️ https://github.com/flozz/rst2gemtext/releases/tag/v0.4.0

This release contains mostly fixes on lists of link and tables. Supported Python versions have also been updated. 😃️

What's the best way to convert a LaTeX equation into an ASCII art image?

I tried putting the equation in a tex document and using @[email protected] to convert to markdown:

pandoc -o example.md example.tex

utftex "\frac{\mathrm{This is an example equation}}{\mathrm{This is still an example equation}}"

   This is an example equation
─────────────────────────────────
This is still an example equation