[gopher] Hello, world!

[Kevin Veroneau]

Markdown for the win!  See, my idea of preferring Markdown in my Gopher client update was a perfect choice. Considering RFCs are also written in a similar syntax.  Markdown is just so easy to read regardless if it's rendered as rich text or plain text.  I actually never knew RFC documents were markdown compatible.  Learn something new everyday.

On December 31, 2014 10:43:40 AM MST, Nick Matavka <n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com> wrote:
>I took a look at your suggestions and I am putting them under due
>consideration, as regards content.  This is less about bringing Gopher
>up
>to date than it is about bringing the spec up to current practice.
>Essentially, we are writing in Latin but speaking in French; the RFC is
>only meant to translate our original document to French.
>
>As regards format, please note that this is a MARKDOWN formatted
>resource.
>I will not consider re-flowing the text in any other format, unless the
>Markdown format continues to be authoritative.  First of all, RFCs are
>in
>modified Markdown and I have already started the RFC process with the
>international people.  Second, putting it in LaTeX or any other markup
>language means that it will be EVEN harder to read for those of us who
>are
>vintage computing freaks (not me, although I do use one of the later
>VT100
>series for some things).
>On Dec 31, 2014 6:09 AM, "Ciprian Dorin Craciun"
><ciprian.craciun at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Nick Matavka
>> <n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I now believe that consensus *can* be established and therefore I
>> re-submit
>> > the same link.  Please edit it and comment to the best of your
>ability.
>> I
>> > hope to actually submit this in the near future.
>> >
>> > http://piratepad.net/gopher
>>
>>
>> I've given the document a quick read, and made a few comments (and
>> proposals) that I think would fit nicely in an updated Gopher RFC.
>> They can be found at the following link:
>>
>>
>>
>http://wiki.volution.ro/CiprianDorinCraciun/Notes/Public/Gopher/RfcUpdateProposal
>>
>>
>> (Disclaimer:  I didn't have internet access (or a computer) during
>the
>> "golden age" of Gopher, I'm not a frequent user of Gopher, neither do
>> I actively run a Gopher server.  However I did read Gopher's history,
>> and early web, and followed this mailing list since a few years back.
>> Moreover I just wrote a Go-based Gopher server, soon to be released,
>> and I do have a computer-science / research background.)
>>
>>
>> Regarding the text format of the proposal, I think it's quite hard to
>> follow, especially in the EtherPad coloured version.  Perhaps the
>> document can easily be changed to use RestructuredText, and then
>> exported to HTML for readability.  Moreover the sections (and / or
>> actual paragraphs) could be numbered to allow referencing to them
>> while commenting (without modifying the actual text).  (Obviously
>when
>> removing an entire paragraph its identifier should not be reused.)
>>
>> Regarding the "workflow", perhaps using a versioning system like Git
>> or Mercurial would work better as the editors would have access to
>> proper diffs, history, and especially merges.  Moreover using
>> something like GitHub or BitBucket allows both "on-line" editing and
>> automatic rendering (of RestrucutredText) as HTML for reading.
>>
>> (I could offer to solve the last two problems of formatting to
>> RestructuredText, splitting the text into one file per section, and
>> preparing a Git repository, plus the needed Make script to export the
>> document as HTML.)
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>> Ciprian.
>>
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