Re: Debian WWW CVS: dmartinez
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:34:15PM -0700, Debian WWW CVS wrote:
> CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml
> Module name: webwml
> Changes by: dmartinez 01/05/25 15:34:15
>
> Modified files:
> english/MailingLists: mklist.tags
>
> Log message:
> Added several spaces at the end of German, Spanish and Swedish translations. It seems that WML doesn't treat newlines as blank spaces, and the final word in several sentences is joint with the next one.
>
Wml eats whitespace when aksed. In this case it is due to the
whitespace=delete in the tag definition. Tags should include
whitespace around them when used if that is what is intended
and should only include the whitespace=delete if that is what is
really wanted.
An example is worth a thousand words:
<define-tag aa whitespace=delete>
[EN:hello world:]
</define-tag>
x<aa>y -> xhello worldy
x <aa> y -> x hello world y
If the whitespace=delete was left out of the tag definition, then
x<aa>y
gives
x
hello world
y
Note: the examples are untested, so I may have made a minor mistake.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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