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General Best Practices
File Naming
Filenames should use '-' to replace spaces, and should have no special characters. Gemtext documents should have the extension .gmi or .gemini. Mixed case can be used, but if you are on a case sensitive filesystem (ext4, etc) you should not have 2 files with the same name and different cases (e.g. 'hello-world.gmi' and 'HELLO-WORLD.gmi')
Why
This follows the convention for the web and ensures compatibility with most filesystems. Dashes are preferred to underscores as a separator because underscores can be hidden by an underline if a client underlines links.
Example
my-cool-page.gmi
Preformatted alt text
The alt text after the opening preformatted text line (`````text here``) should be used as an alt text describing the content if it is not machine-readable. For instance, ASCII art should have a brief description in the alt text, but a code block does not need alt text.
Why
This ensures that people using gemini with something like a screen reader are able to understand all the aspects of the site.
Example
```ascii banner saying "ART"
_ ____ _____
/ \ | _ \_ _|
/ _ \ | |_) || |
/ ___ \| _ < | |
/_/ \_\_| \_\|_|
```
Links
TODO: probably similar to gemlog links
Navigation
TODO: probably similar to gemlog links with some modifications