On 2012-11-24, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > But how will the client decide what to monospace, and what not to? > There is no discerning factor... in both cases you just have lines > of text which are terminated by a newline.
The number of consecutive newlines distinguishes the two. Two newlines marks the end of a paragraph, and one newline marks the end of monospaced text. >From there, the only ambiguity would be the last line of the message and cases where a blank line follows a monospaced line. The former could be resolved by treating the last line like the penultimate line (requiring an extra EOL if the last line actually differed from the penultimate line). The blank line following the monospace line could be done by simply introducing a whitespace character, or just imposing a blank line after all monospaced regions. It would be quite trivial to render this sensibly without a lot of complex logic.
