TG 1.0.9 text widget

[ozwyzard]

I am using the text widget on TG 1.0.x. However, when viewed, the
text widget display does not preserve newlines, tabs, etc. I would
like for the display to
(a) preserve newlines and tabs
(b) show URLs as hyperlinks

I tried displaying the output as XML format and added display-time
translation of URL text to markup. However, this is prone with error
(in case the original text already has XML characters like '<', '>',
etc.).

TinyMCE sounds too heavy duty for my use.

The recently discussed restructured text sounds interesting to me, but
I could not locate a widget for it.

Pointers welcome!

Thanks,
ozwyzard

[Diez B. Roggisch]

There is no automagic that converts e.g. newlines to markup and links to <a href>. You will have to process the text before display. And while there might be no widget for ReST, it's easy enough to create one with docutils.

Diez