On Friday, 4 May 2012 04:39:47 UTC+1, Josh English wrote:
> However, when I convert my multiple-paragraph text object with textile, my
> original line breaks are preserved. Since I'm going to HTML, I d'nt want my
> line breaks preserved.
I think any Textile implementation will preserve line breaks within a paragraph
by converting them to BR tags. Both RedCloth and PyTextile do, anyway.
> I've tried several ways of pre-processing the text in the node, but pytextile
> still gives me line breaks.
Below is a test script that shows one way I've dealt with this issue in the
past by reformatting paragraphs to remove embedded line breaks. YMMV.
import re, textile
print "INPUT1:"
s1 = """This is a long multi-line description
with several paragraphs and hopefully, eventually,
proper HTML P-tags.
This is a new paragraph. It should be surrounded
by its own P-tag.
Hopefully (again), I won't have a bunch of unwanted
BR tags thrown in."""
print(s1)
print "OUTPUT1:"
html1 = textile.textile(s1)
print(html1)
print "INPUT2:"
s2 = re.sub(r'[ \t]*\n[ \t]*(\n?)[ \t]*', r' \1\1', s1, flags=re.MULTILINE)
print(s2)
print "OUTPUT2:"
html2 = textile.textile(s2)
print(html2)
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