[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
Nuno J. Silva
nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt
Sat May 19 18:11:53 UTC 2012
On 2012-05-19, Nick Matavka wrote:
> I have an idea for selectors. There is a large difference between
> word processing files and page layout languages, so I recommend
> keeping both d and p selectors. d could be for word processing
> documents such as Word, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect, and p could be
> for page layout and markup languages such as LaTeX, PDF, PostScript,
> and Rich Text Format.
About LaTeX, I believe either you're serving the code as something for
the user to read (hence type 0 or another type that gets established for
alternate encodings), or you're serving the set of source files, which
the user will have to download an unpack.
In this case, I believe a "document" item type does not apply, it's
either 0 or 9, depending on whether it's a short snippet of code that
you can serve as-is or a tarball with the files.
> I've got a bunch of good ideas, so I've been
> working on a draft RFC that I will later publish.
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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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