Line breaks

[Tobi]

Hi!

I'm thinking about using DotLiquid for rendering some plain text files.

How exactly are line breaks handled?

If I do this:

--- SNIP ---
xxx
{% if false %}
{% endif %}
yyy
--- SNIP ---

I get:

--- SNIP ---
xxx

yyy
--- SNIP ---

...but I would expect to get no empty line between "xxx" and "yyy".
And it gets even worse in this case:

--- SNIP ---
xxx
{% if true %}
--------------
{% endif %}
yyy
--- SNIP ---

becomes:

--- SNIP ---
xxx

--------------

yyy
--- SNIP ---

(Snippets are only indented in this posting)

Tobias

[Tim Jones]

Hi Tobias,

You can put a hyphen before the end of each tag, and that will suppress the line breaks that would normally be there:

<ul>

{% for item in user.tasks -%}

  <li>{{ item.name }}</li>

{% endfor -%}

</ul>

Incidentally, that example is from the Try Online page of our website, so you can test it out for yourself there.

Hope that helps,

Tim

[Tobi]

Am 28.09.2011 17:42, schrieb Tim Jones:

> You can put a hyphen before the end of each tag, and that will suppress the
> line breaks that would normally be there:

> Hope that helps,

It did. Thanks a lot!

> Incidentally, that example is from the Try Online

Looks like this is the only reference to the usage of the hyphen. I
couldn't find it anywhere else in the docs.

I wanted to add it to the Wiki, but this belongs to the Ruby version of
Liquid which doesn't seem to support the hyphen.

Tobias

[Tim Jones]

Hi Tobi,

Great, glad it works.

I have amended the "DotLiquid for Designers" page to include a section that describes any differences between DotLiquid and Liquid template syntax. As the first item for that section, I have added a note about line breaks.

https://github.com/formosatek/dotliquid/wiki/DotLiquid-for-Designers

Best wishes,

Tim