I recently saw this posted about adding emphsis with the limited markup that gemtext provides.

gemini://gerikson.com/gemlog/gemini-sux/e-m-p-h-a-s-i-s.gmi

𝖧𝖮𝖶𝖤𝖵𝖤𝖱, there are math unicode that seems to be able to do roughly the same thing. 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱. 𝘖𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤. It's not a perfect system, but I think it works well enough.

3 years ago · 👍 sevc, staticvoid, gnuserland

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@gnuserland the problem with tools agains robots is that they also work against people who use tools that depend on these robots. · 3 years ago

Unicode symbol are perfect as stealth tactic against robot-scraper... 🤖 · 3 years ago

What if someone is using a terminal client and it dosn't support those fonts? · 3 years ago

It's generally a bad idea to use Unicode math symbols to write anything except math equations. This has been discussed before, for example: gemini://rawtext.club/~sloum/geminilist/007518.gmi

Gemtext is a text-oriented format, so it's important to use all Unicode code points according to their intended meaning, not just by their visual appearance. This way, the text can be understood also via non-visual means like text-to-speech, screenreaders, and language translation services. · 3 years ago

Also this from Stack Smith you has what I would consider to be an amazing take on "𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔".

gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-09.urlencoding.gmi · 3 years ago