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You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear
by Veen 8y ago
You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear reasonable.
- JasonFruit 8y agoPoetry is not a particularly common use case on Hacker News, though, and I'm not convinced anybody needs to optimize for it.
- snazz 8y agoHN gobbles up literal new lines without code blocks so either the poem would all run together or have blank lines between each line.
- dragonwriter 8y agoCode formatting does not get poetry to appear reasonable. That's actually the whole issue being discussed. On the other hand if you don't like each line spaced as a paragraph, as it would be if you try to keep the line structure I. HN non-code text, you can, on HN, use the same convention used everywhere else that it is impossible, impractical, or undesirable to set poetry while preserving the line structure: “this is a line of poetry / and this is another line / each separated from the next with / a solidus set with space / on either side.”
- derp_dee_derp 8y agoThe whole issue being discussed is that HN made a terrible design desicion when they implemented quotes and code styling for Mobile.