Re: blank line in lists

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> was heard to say:
| Let's concentrate on the jade html backend although I suspect the problem
| occurs for all jade backends.  To verify the problem I suggest you try jade
| with html output, and you should see that propagated nl *looking directly at
| the raw html file result* at the start of paragraphs in mixed environments
| like lists.

Yes, I know what the markup looks like, but...

| because the browser interpretation of that leading nl in the HTML varies
| between browsers. As I recall mozilla ignored it while netscape 4.7 and
| konqueror paid attention to it leading to the problem that the original
| poster was discussing.

Netscape 6.2 seems to ignore the leading whitespace, which I think is the
correct behavior for HTML.

| Concentrating on the html here, if the html standards say leading nl's in
| paragraphs are valid in the context of lists or other mixed environments
| then it is up to the individual browser to ignore them, and obviously the
| problem is not jade's fault.

That, I believe, is the case.

| However, if the html standards say leading
| nl's for paragraphs within lists are invalid, then this is jade's problem
| which should be fixed.  In case of doubt about the html standards, I
| understand there are validators which should make it easy to tell whether
| the jade html output is valid for the leading nl situation we have been
| discussing.

There's no question of validity or not, a newline can occur anywhere
in a <p>.  But what the browsers are supposed to do may be an open
question.

There are a class of problems that arise because things are allowed in
DocBook that are not allowed in HTML (lists inside paragraphs for
one). They are not easy to fix in Jade. In practice, I generally heave my
generated HTML through tidy. It's a hack, but it usually helps. Except where
tidy %@%!W@$@#s up, of course :-(

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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