Line Breaks

[Visiblink]

This is a strange issue. I use the gemini portal every day with the Lynx browser. Lynx doesn't have built-in Gemini support (I asked on their mailing list, but it's never been added) and the portal is a great way to keep using Lynx as an all-in-one browser.

Here's the issue: the gemini portal reproduces line breaks in gemtext faithfully when using it with Firefox. However, it produces a "wall of text" in Lynx.

Here's a site that demonstrates the issue really well: gemini://idiomdrottning.org/occams-turtles

It's probably a Lynx issue, but if there's any way to fix it, I'd really appreciate it. Big thanks for this and pygopherd!

[michael-lazar]

Hi, I like to support Lynx and other niche web environments so thanks for posting this!

I'm using a CSS rule white-space: pre-wrap for the whitespace in gemini, and I don't think Lynx recognizes that rule (or any CSS at all?)

I just tried replacing the \n newlines with <br> tags and I think it looks like that solved it. I also had to go into my Lynx settings and disable COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS as described here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170551/force-lynx-or-elinks-to-interpret-spaces-and-line-breaks

[Visiblink]

Thank you for making the change and looking into the Lynx setting. It worked perfectly!

For anyone reading this and using Debian, you need to go into /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg and uncomment COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE and then change it to COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE