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.
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2012 17:51:45 UTC+1 schrieb 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.
>
> On Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:27:12 UTC-6, Dirk Krause wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2012 16:27:19 UTC+1 schrieb Massimo Di Pierro:
>>>
>>> The idea was to insert explicit newlines inside tags like H1, H2, etc.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:52:24 UTC-6, Dirk Krause wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2012 13:13:54 UTC+1 schrieb villas:
>>>>>
>>>>> Use this:
>>>>>
>>>>> [[NEWLINE]]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:04:56 AM UTC, Dirk Krause wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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