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New Format Test | |
October 03rd, 2017 | |
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In this phlog entry, I've changed my type to 1 instead of 0--that | |
is I've moved my entry to a gophermap instead of a text file. | |
This allows me to make links in the file. I'm going to do that in | |
a footnote pattern, like I've been doing in my text entries. That | |
should avoid breaking things visually. | |
This first entry I'm building by hand as a way of discovering all | |
the different things I'll need to tweak to make this work. The | |
first is obviously that I'll be creating a folder for entries | |
instead of a single text file. That will break my "Phlog Stream" | |
option, so I'll likely remove it for the short term. The next | |
change I'm making is changing my textwidth to 69 instead of 80. | |
I did 66 instead of 67 because I'm going to add a blank space | |
character in the front of every line in the document before the | |
links footer. That should avoid any problems with accidentally | |
starting a line with a number and having it interpretted as | |
a gophermap menu item. I think I'll author everything normally | |
and handle that extra space with a sed [0] command in my script. | |
The links in the footer are interesting. I'm not sure there's | |
a good way to automate those. I added a reference to sed in the | |
paragraph above in the link style I was using before. Maybe I'll | |
prefix the link word or phrase in the footer with the | |
cooresponding number for reference. That should be enough | |
context. | |
Adding the entry to the gophermap seems no harder than before. | |
Honestly, this is going to be pretty simple to do, and should | |
help my rendering on phones and small screens. 67 characters is | |
the gopher spec, so I should try to stick to it. | |
What do you all think? Is there anything else I could do to make | |
this format work better? It's a lot to change in my generator | |
just to support links, but I think it'll be really nice to be | |
able to not only reference other people's phlogs but link to the | |
entries as well. | |
[0] sed |