From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-04-10T20:39:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth bug and suggestion

_why_,

> checked into redcloth cvs.  there's a :fold_lines accessor which can 
> be used to toggle it.
>
>   r = RedCloth.new "... text ..."
>   r.fold_lines = true
>   r.to_htmlthrough
>
> basically, it just treats single newlines like a space.

Thank you. It works for paragraphs, but not list items. If I have

	* item one
	* item two that spans
	  multiple lines
	* item three

the output is

	<ul>
	<li>item one</li>
		<li>item two that spans</li>
	</ul> multiple lines
	<ul>
	<li>item three</li>
	</ul>

RedCloth works by performing substitutions in the text all at once, if 
I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure that this situation can be handled by 
search-and-replace; I think you have to walk the string with a state 
machine and further complicate Textile's rules by saying "a line item 
ends not with a newline but with multiple newlines or with the start of 
a new line item". Ugh.

Jim
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