MARKMIN line break

[Dirk Krause]

Hi,

sorry if this was answered elsewhere but I couldn't find it:

I found no consistent answer how to add single line breaks ('<br />') as opposed to paragraphs ('<p>') into MARKMIN.

This is what I found so far:

(1) the 'purest' Markdown doesn't allow line breaks at all (found in stackoverflow)

(2) there is a common practice to add two or more spaces at the end of the line to inject a <br /> (see http://goo.gl/iEGU).

(3) then there is github flavored markdown (http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ ) which simply adds this to the renderer.

Obviously the MARKMIN renderer doesn't support (3). From some forum posts I thought it would support (2) but it doesn't (I checked on version 2.0.9).

What is the best practice to achieve single line breaks?

Thanks,

  Dirk

[villas]

Use this:

[[NEWLINE]]

[Dirk Krause]

ok, thank you.

I am only wondering why there is a special tag '[[NEWLINE]] when there is already a one-to-one token for it - the single page break itself.

This can be parsed with

re.sub(r'([^\n])\n([^\n])', r'\1[[NEWLINE]]\n\2', s)

(full example here: http://pythonfiddle.com/replace-single-line-break )

Where would I put this regular expression best to avoid the newline tag for the editor?

Thanks again.

[Massimo Di Pierro]

The idea was to insert explicit newlines inside tags like H1, H2, etc.

[Dirk Krause]

I see, and thank you. Now we already have a database full of text without the 'newline' tag and I have two options:

(1) traverse through the database and applying foresaid regex to all text fields or

(2) hack the regex somewhere into the code.

I just tried (2) and it seems to be working; I applied this:

{{=MARKMIN(re.sub(r'([^\n])\n([^\n])', r'\1[[NEWLINE]]\n\2', theText))}}

and it seems to be working.

So that's ok now, but when I do a CSV export it's not in so I my guess is I need to change the MARKMIN renderer itself, right?

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Why do you want the newline at all? If you have \n\n in your text, it will be used to brak <p>...</p>. You can just add space after </p> with css.

[Dirk Krause]

I learned from my editor that there is a huge difference between a paragraph and a line break. This also documented on a different thread here - people writing texts need both.

[apps in tables]

I am trying these:

<td class="span8">{{=(row.body1)+  \n\n              +(row.body2)}}</td>

<td class="span8">{{=(row.body1)+ ' \n\n '            +(row.body2)}}</td>

<td class="span8">{{=(row.body1)+ [[NEWLINE]]  +(row.body2)}}</td>

<td class="span8">{{=(row.body1)+ '[[NEWLINE]]' +(row.body2)}}</td>

and they are not working.

What am i missing?

Regards,

Ashraf

[Massimo Di Pierro]

You are missing that you need to generate html <br/> and {{=anything}} always escape anything.

You want:

<td class="span8">{{=(row.body1)}}<br/>{{=(row.body2)}}</td> 

or

<td class="span8">{{=CAT(row.body1,BR(),row.body2)}}</td>

or

<td class="span8">{{=CAT(row.body1,XML('<br/>'),row.body2)}}</td>

or 

<td class="span8">{{=XML(row.body1+'<br/>'+row.body2, sanitize=True)}}</td>

The latter is not quite the same as the others as it allows some HTML in the row.body1/2.

[apps in tables]

Thank you...

[Andrew W]

I assume you are no longer talking about markmin.   I didn't think you could use {{  }}  in markmin.

Correct ?