> Django templates are useful (and used) for all sorts of text-based
> formats. For some of these, an exact control over whitespace is needed
> throughout the entire file (eg. text/plain),
Agreed. When I started using Django templates I was very surprised at
the output I was seeing.
After a while I realised that the thing that suprised me was that
newlines were being output for what I considered to be just
'directives' -- that is, lines that contained tags, not content. For
example, {% if %} and {% endif %} tags on lines by themselves.
Honestly, my use case then was to make my HTML look pretty, so was
able to let it go pretty easily. Recently however I used the template
system to produce an email with a textual pricing table, and there the
lack of easy whitespace control hurt there.
Would it be feasible to add some logic, something along the lines of:
"Template lines containing just tags with no literal content do not
produce a line in the output (unless of course the tag itself
produces one)"
After all, new lines are easy to add, but currently painful to suppress...
Cheers,
Leon
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work: http://messiah.co.nz/
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