I love Gemini allot, I'm doing a capsule right now, but don't have any control in how the user will see my capsule make my graphic designer side go a little mad.

in gopher I had a little more control in that area.

7 months ago

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Yes, but like these I will lose all the good things of gemini, I don't want to relay in only preformated for control the size of the textboxes.

I think I can get a way to do what I want in other way buy will not be perfect. · 7 months ago

If you use preformatted text blocks and limit yourself to 70 columns it's basically the same as designing in gopher. · 7 months ago

Nexy is one of the eternal debates of every writer: to write for yourself or to write for others. Something tells me that if you write for yourself but publish it at the same time you write for others in such a way that creative freedom is noticeable. On the other hand, if you write for others your hands will be somewhat tied.

But freezr says something key, Gemini already adds the format so the format is the least important thing. But it is important the spacing between paragraphs, if you find a well-written site but as a “block of letters” you run away. Besides, from a PC or smartphone the zoom is a help, but the structure and punctuation do a lot. · 7 months ago

Gemini clients render the text more or less you can read through an editor with the word wrapping enabled.

Then you have your lines and you can play with them to make the text readable.

I saw gorgeous capsules freshes and easy to read, and capsules with poor layout where the content is difficult to grasp.

I would not exagerate with preformatted text because Gemini clients have the concepts of the "viewport" while Gopher clients don't. · 7 months ago

Ik, I just have to work with the Gemini limitations and make it work. but think that someone will enter to my capsule and see something all broken because I didn't know how it will be shown in that client make me a little anxious · 7 months ago

I'm talking about small graphical tweaks like text boxes and the flow of it working the way I want, or having the preformed text have a relative size to the readable text.

Don't having any way to control the textboxes breaks my thing.

and I dont want to force it because I don't want to lose that accessibility. In my gopher I did a textbox and preformated images standard or 60 symbols, but that is not accessible at all (At that moment I didn't know about the natural limit of 80) · 7 months ago

Not sure what is your issue with the look and feel...

From a design stand point you would like to understand how flow your content with "rhythm", to make it readable and meaningful.

Considering that Langrange make the text beautiful but the TUI editors don't. · 7 months ago

Todo depende del servicio que uses, si usas alguna web tipo Flounder o Gemlog Blue (algo tradicional) siempre puedes tirar de cualquier editor de textos (suelo usar Writer pero vamos, cualquier editor es valido) para un mayor control sobre la ortografia y estructura (como suelo hacer) y tener un navegador Gemini abierto para ver como queda. En Gemlog Blue (lo que uso por "estar tranquilo en un sitio") está la posibilidad de modificar cualquier entrada de forma que si a través del navegador Gemini algo no te gusta siempre puedes modificarlo. · 7 months ago

From a graphics design perspective, it's honestly interesting to me as a different perspective on what the artform of a website is. Is a website an interactive sequence of well-crafted paintings, with data harmonizing with intuitive/instructive graphics, or is it just a hierarchy of text? For what it's worth, many people who are blind or have poor vision experience the internet like this, as a nearly-raw text stream. This mode of experiencing your sites always existed, it's just that here it's the default experience instead of the fringe one. · 7 months ago