Start word immediately after end tag

[Ram Rachum]

Hi guys,

Say I want to generate this HTML using Shpaml:

    <a href='whatever'>Hello</a>, world!

How would I do it? The important part is that there's no space between the o and the comma. Is it possible using Shpaml? How?

Thanks,

Ram.

[Steve Howell]

You can just use raw HTML for that case.  The preprocessor will let it through fine.

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[Ram Rachum]

So if I want to have a character immediately after the end tag, I have to send HTML, no way to do it with normal Shpaml?

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[James Robert]

That's correct. Shpaml saves you a lot of typing and manual matching of closing tags, but sometimes you still need to use raw html.

[Ram Rachum]

Maybe we could figure out a syntax for this? One idea: If there are no empty lines between two lines, there will be no space between the tags.

[Steve Howell]

For this kind of stuff, it's hard to come up with a better syntax than HTML itself.  HTML is overly verbose for lots of situations, but it's well suited for small inline stuff like your example and for bold/italic tags.

[Ram Rachum]

After some more work with Shpaml, I'm thinking that introducing some kind of syntax to deal with this would be very beneficial.

I suggest a keyword TIGHT (or some other similar word) similar to VERBATIM which will cause all sub-tags to contain no space between them.

What do you think? 

[Ram Rachum]

Anyone?

[James Robert]

Hey, Sorry for the delay, I've been out of the country for a couple weeks :)

I'm not 100% convinced that this is a big win, do you have some use cases/before-after snippets where this would make a big difference? 

[Ram Rachum]

Ah, I remember there was a case before where it made a big difference, but that was a couple of weeks back, and I don't remember now...

I guess we can let it go until it pops up again. (Unless someone else wants to champion this.)