As far as I can read on blogs around the internet, this "bug" is not new: foo bar is translated to: "<p>foo bar</p>" and not "<p>foo<br />bar</p>". After searching the web for an answer it seems that the missing line- break functionality is there on purpose. What is the reason for this? ... and is there a way to "fix" it? /watson
on 11.04.2008 12:45
on 11.04.2008 14:29
I totally agree. I fixed it in my own projects by doing a gsub on the final result. For me (and all my clients), it's clear that when they write my name 45, funny stree 12345 MyPlace They *want* the breaks. The absence of the <br/> is an "inverse" fix. Some form entries used to automatically wrap lines by adding "\n" (as in most web emails). The inverse fix made text entries tolerant to this "bug". Normal behaviour should definitely be to insert the <br/> tag. When some input comes malformed, it should be unwrapped before parsing. This would really make sense. So, please add the <br/>. Gaspard
on 11.04.2008 17:31
> foo > bar > > is translated to: "<p>foo bar</p>" and not "<p>foo<br />bar</p>". some more history: this was brought up last year in the comments on the ol' redhanded (http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/superredcloth1160Gems.html), where someone named fat (responded to by someone named _why, eventually this all starts to make sense) makes the common-sense argument that redcloth shouldn't ignore return marks if people put them in, and people seem to agree. this used to be a setting, :hard_breaks, which was taken out sometime, i forget if i ever read why. jason? it doesn't seem like it's a question of being hard to implement. two breaks => <p>, one break => <br />, right? d
on 11.04.2008 20:15
RedCloth 4.0 (a.k.a. SuperRedCloth) atones for the transgressions of its predecessor and honors hard breaks. We hope to release it soon. Please help test... gem install RedCloth --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net
on 12.04.2008 01:50
On 11/04/2008, at 20.14, Jason Garber wrote: > RedCloth 4.0 (a.k.a. SuperRedCloth) atones for the transgressions > of its predecessor and honors hard breaks. We hope to release it > soon. Please help test... > > gem install RedCloth --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net Thanks :) - It worked like a charm. Now line-breaks are interpreted as expected. I'll keep using this version and of cause report any bugs I might find. /watson
on 12.04.2008 11:37
On 12/04/2008, at 1.26, Thomas Watson Steen wrote: > Thanks :) - It worked like a charm. Now line-breaks are > interpreted as expected. I'll keep using this version and of cause > report any bugs I might find. Well, it worked on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4 But on my staging and production server both running FreeBSD 6.2 I get the following error: > > redcloth_scan. > > Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ > gems/RedCloth-3.290 for inspection. > Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-3.290/ > ext/redcloth_scan/gem_make.out I don't know exactly what happends when I install a gem, but it seems that some C code is compiled for the specific platform. I don't know if this bug is related to RedCloth at all, but I've been unsuccessful finding anybody on the web having the same problem. So I hope you might give me some pointers... /watson